Let's see if we have this straight. Is it your contention that Hillary WANTED the classified information that she said she did NOT have on her server released, and that the Obama administration, knowing that the information should NOT have been classified, REFUSED to declassify and release it? I guess this is all in an attempt to paint Hillary as being something other than extremely careless with national security?HUh? THAT was Clinton's policy and you can also thank president Clinton for releasing government information faster than it ever was released...President Clinton changed the rules so govt agencies were on a systematic schedule of releasing govt classified documents to the public among many other things to make our govt more transparent.That was not the Clinton's policy. Or Obama's.so we know of any foreign financial involvements with Nations, Banks, Oligarchs etc,What was the point in demanding they be released then? just something to whine about until they were? I wish he would have never released them...one less thing for the liberals to give themselves ulcers over...I want trump to ask russia to release the e-mails againWHO is screaming bloody murder??? near all the threads on this tax release are all started by CONsevatives?What's up with it is called seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you do not want to see. You lefties are still screaming bloody murder and you think it's going to be covered up with your projection?
It's great that the multi billionaire Trump paid federal income taxes in the year 2005! BRAVO for him!!!
there, ya happy now? or do you think we should all bow down and kiss his feet, or wash them with our tears and wipe them off with our hair?
Sunlight is nature's best disinfectant...
Obama Spent $36 Million Last Year To Fight FOIA Lawsuits
President Barack Obama’s administration spent a record $36 million to battle Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits, contradicting his promise to be the most transparent administration in history.
During Obama’s last year in office, the administration spent $36 million to pay legal fees to avoid releasing information sought by FOIA requests, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.
More than half the money was spent fighting lawsuits against three agencies. The Department of Justice accounted for $12 million, the Department Homeland Security spent $6.3 million and the Department of Defense spent $4.8 million.
The number of FOIA lawsuits brought against the government increased significantly during Obama’s two terms. Individuals, journalists and advocacy groups filed 300 FOIA lawsuits in 2009. That number increased through almost every year of Obama’s presidency, and a total of 512 lawsuits were filed in 2016, according to the FOIA Project.
A 2016 Government Accountability Office report shows that from 2009 to 2014, the administration spent $144 million for all of the FOIA lawsuits that government agencies and departments defended.
The increase in costs of FOIA lawsuits corresponds to the increase in legal battles brought against the government. For the past several years, the Obama administration set new records for the number of FOIA lawsuits.
Hillary Clinton asked the govt to RELEASE ALL of her emails, instead they played games of this is classified and that is classified and all the outrage for 27 of her emails being super duper classified info and Judicial watch and the AP sued for them, and the govt would not budge, all the while Hillary Clinton kept saying release them release them....but noooooooooooooooo, and now less than 6 months after the election, ALL OF THOSE 27 super duper TOP SECRET CLASSIFIED HAVE BEEN DECLASSIFIED but 4 of them...does anyone even care what was in them or want to know why they were classified secret in the first place or does any media follow up on it and tell the public that they were all declassified since, NO OF COURSE NOT....who cares now...the election is over? sheesh...
Also, all your article shows is that mostly right wing entities, sued the Obama admin for every thing under the sun, but DID NOT do so with Bush....and have not done so with Trump, so far.