{"id":28710,"date":"2012-07-03T05:19:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T10:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28710"},"modified":"2012-07-03T09:52:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T14:52:18","slug":"banana-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28710","title":{"rendered":"A Banana Republic, And You Can Keep It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They said that if we voted for John McCain, we&#8217;d get secretive, imperial government that&#8217;d rule by decree and conceal its activities from the peasants.<\/p>\n<p>And <a style=\"color: #1b8be0; font: normal normal normal 15px\/normal 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.625; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/29\/obamas-secretive-drug-war-dea-foia-rejec?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reason%2FHitandRun+%28Reason+Online+-+Hit+%26+Run+Blog%29&amp;utm_content=FaceBook\">they were right! DEA Freedom of Information Act rejections have doubled since 2008<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite President Obama\u2019s 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/29\/obamas-secretive-drug-war-dea-foia-rejec?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reason%2FHitandRun+%28Reason+Online+-+Hit+%26+Run+Blog%29&amp;utm_content=FaceBook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/media.reason.com\/mc\/mriggs\/2012_06\/FOIA_Chart1.png?h=317&amp;w=400\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But it didn\u2019t 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\u2019s administration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It gets complicated. \u00a0I urge you to read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They said that if we voted for John McCain, we&#8217;d get secretive, imperial government that&#8217;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\u2019s 2009 executive order requiring agencies to err on the side of disclosure when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,64,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-president-obama","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28710"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28725,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28710\/revisions\/28725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}