Federal judge allows White House to deny FOIA request for missing e-mail records.
By on Jun 16th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Federal judge allows White House to deny FOIA request for missing e-mail records.
A federal judge ruled today that the White House Office of Administration, which likely has records of the White House’s knowledge of the millions of missing e-mails, is not subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and thus does not have to turn over its e-mail record. The Office of Administration had responded to FOIA requests since its creation in 1978 until the Bush administration reversed that policy last year — after Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed this lawsuit.
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anyone wanna bet that the judge is a Bush appointee?
June 16th, 2008 at 6:40 pmI read about this earlier on Huff and it is very ominous about how much of all the information will never see the light of day.
Repugs are the most disgusting form of vermin on this earth!
June 16th, 2008 at 6:41 pmI was too late. Uncle Ho got into South Vietnam before me.
June 16th, 2008 at 6:41 pmoldtree; with no small thanks to the draft.
fortunes of war(or rather, misfortunes)
June 16th, 2008 at 6:43 pmApparently, freedom of information is not on the march.
June 16th, 2008 at 6:46 pmConstitution, schmonstitution!!!
We don’t need no steenking Constitution!!
June 16th, 2008 at 6:46 pmEducate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
June 16th, 2008 at 6:48 pmThomas Jefferson
I’m calling it a night.
carry on cleo
say good night, dick.
good night, dick.
June 16th, 2008 at 6:51 pmI don’t get it. These Jackoff work for us. They seem to get away with murder.
June 16th, 2008 at 6:52 pmGood guess, Uncle Ho, but no, the judge was apparently appointed to the US District Court by Clinton, in 1997.
However, she was in the Nixon DoJ, was originally appointed to the DC Superior Court in 1984, and was appointed to the FISA court by Rehnquist.
June 16th, 2008 at 6:59 pmwikipedia also says of the judge, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly:
On October 1, 2007, Judge Kollar-Kotelly reversed George W. Bush on archive secrecy in a 38-page ruling, which said that the U.S. Archivist’s reliance on the executive order to delay release of the papers of former presidents is “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion and not in accordance with law.”
So, while this ruling is a disappointment for all who value access to information on our government, it does not appear that it is partisan in motivation.
June 16th, 2008 at 7:03 pmThe best judge money can buy – redux.
June 16th, 2008 at 7:16 pmSo, while we’re waiting for the appeal, what we need is for Waxman to issue another subpoena for them to defy.
Is it possible for Nancy not to realize the depth of our anger over her lack of a table? When I think of her, all I can think of is “the false comfort … of appeasement” said in one of my least favorite voices.
Impeachment should have begun a year and a half ago.
June 16th, 2008 at 7:25 pmShe’s a Clinton-era appointee. Huh? She’s also a FISA judge. Uh-oh.
June 16th, 2008 at 7:41 pmMary Poplins said:
I don’t get it. These Jackoff work for us. They seem to get away with murder.
That’s the point, they don’t work for us they work for themselves. This is classic authoritarianism where the ends justify the means and they know what’s best for everyone.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
June 16th, 2008 at 8:04 pmPaul W. I know it’s not your fault that the “ObamaFan” troll saluted you. We won’t reject you because of it.
I’m pretty sure that “ObamaFan” misunderstood your post, since he misunderstands everything else that makes any sense at all.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:03 pm>99% of the posts on this blog are idiotic.
your posts on this blog? yeah, thats about right..
June 17th, 2008 at 12:29 am.
Federal judge allows White House to deny FOIA request for missing e-mail records.
… Because you can’t request what has already been erased, deleted, deleted AGAIN, shredded, and composted…
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June 17th, 2008 at 2:03 amObamaFan said:
Sorry I am stupid. 99% of the posts on this blog are idiotic. Paul W. has a brain.
um…but I tend to agree with 99% of the posters.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
June 17th, 2008 at 11:20 am