A Banana Republic, And You Can Keep It
By Mitch Berg
They said that if we voted for John McCain, we’d get secretive, imperial government that’d rule by decree and conceal its activities from the peasants.
And they were right! DEA Freedom of Information Act rejections have doubled since 2008:
Despite President Obama’s 2009 executive order requiring agencies to err on the side of disclosure when processing Freedom of Information Act requests, the Drug Enforcement Agency exempted a record number of FOIA requests in 2011 in nearly every category.
But it didn’t set records just in 2011: According to a comparison of publicly available data from FOIA.gov, the DEA rejected more FOIA requests in 2009, 2010, and 2011 than it did during the last year of George W. Bush’s administration.
It gets complicated. I urge you to read the whole thing.
July 3rd, 2012 at 9:21 am
Nobody told me “we’d get a secretive, imperial government …” if I voted for Bob Barr. Stupid Voter Protection Activists dropped the ball on that one.
July 3rd, 2012 at 11:20 am
I can’t believe this! After all, during his campaign, his highness Obummer promised us that this would be the most transparent government, ever!