{"id":6649,"date":"2015-03-19T08:16:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T13:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6649"},"modified":"2015-03-19T08:16:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T13:16:42","slug":"obama-administration-sets-new-record-for-censoring-and-denying-access-to-government-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6649","title":{"rendered":"Obama Administration Sets New Record for Censoring and Denying Access to Government Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obama Administration Sets New Record for Censoring and Denying Access to Government Documents<\/a><\/h3>\n

War is Peace\u00a0<\/strong>
\nFreedom is Slavery<\/strong>
\nIgnorance is Strength<\/strong>
\nCensorship is Transparency\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many of you will have heard about how the White House recently celebrated National Freedom of Information Day\u00a0by\u00a0removing a federal regulation<\/a>\u00a0that subjects its Office of Administration to the Freedom of Information Act. While interesting, it turns out that was merely a sideshow to the real news; that fiscal 2014 marked a record year for government censorship of documents that are supposed to be available\u00a0on request.<\/p>\n

Specifically, data released Tuesday showed that the U.S.\u00a0<\/b>government responded to 647,142 requests, a 4% decrease over the previous year, and that the\u00a0backlog of unanswered requests at year\u2019s end surged by 55% to more than 200,00.<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

More\u00a0from the\u00a0AP<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014\u00a0The Obama administration set a new record again for more often than ever censoring government files or outright denying access to them last year under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, according to a new analysis of federal data by The Associated Press.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The government took longer to turn over files when it provided any, said more regularly that it couldn\u2019t find documents, and refused a record number of times to turn over files quickly that might be especially newsworthy.<\/em><\/p>\n

It also acknowledged in nearly 1 in 3 cases that its initial decisions to withhold or censor records were improper under the law \u2014 but only when it was challenged.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Can\u2019t make this stuff up.<\/p>\n

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Obama Administration Sets New Record for Censoring and Denying Access to Government Documents War is Peace\u00a0 Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength Censorship is Transparency\u00a0 Many of you will have heard about how the White House recently celebrated National Freedom of Information Day\u00a0by\u00a0removing a federal regulation\u00a0that subjects its Office of Administration to the Freedom of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,4286,584,2847,843,877],"class_list":["post-6649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-freedom-of-information-act","tag-obama","tag-obama-administration","tag-us-government","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6650,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649\/revisions\/6650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}