The most transparent administration ever, LOL

[Stephanie]

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By Michelle Malkin • June 5, 2013 09:28 AM


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The most transparent administration ever, LOL
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2013

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes. Welcome to the Summer of Belated Epiphanies. Media lapdogs are finally, finally arriving at the conclusion that maybe this isn’t the most transparent administration in world history, after all.

On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported on the Obama administration’s use of secret email accounts, stonewalling on Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and attempted shakedown of reporters seeking public information on just how widespread the disclosure evasion might be.

Take note: It wasn’t the AP that originally uncovered Team Obama’s penchant for email sock-puppetry. Chris Horner, Competitive Enterprise Institute fellow and author of “The Liberal War on Transparency,” first exposed former EPA Chief Lisa Jackson’s Internet alter ego, “Richard Windsor,” last year. The free-market environmental think tank filed suit against the government last fall seeking records on the secret, illegal “secondary” email accounts of high-level EPA officials after the agency ignored multiple FOIA filings.

Seven months after President Obama was re-elected, along comes the AP to bolster Horner’s assertion that the practice is not just isolated in one bureaucracy. Corruptocrat Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (whose document-shredding, obstructionist history I chronicled last week) maintained at least one FOIA-subverting address: KGS2@hhs.gov. So did Donald Berwick, former head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and Gary Cohen, a top Obamacare operative.

According to the AP, a whopping 10 agencies have not yet turned over lists of email addresses, including EPA, the Pentagon, the departments of Veterans Affairs, Transportation, Treasury, Justice, Housing and Urban Development, Homeland Security, Commerce, and Agriculture.

And how’s this for the audacity of opacity: Can you believe the Labor Department initially asked the AP to pay more than $1 million for its email addresses?

In a classic Captain Obvious moment, the Associated Press points out that these hidden accounts “drive perceptions that government officials are trying to hide actions or decisions.” You don’t say!

Hostility to transparency, of course, has been a hallmark of this administration from top to bottom. As I reported from the very first days of the Obama regime’s vampiric tenure:

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[dilloduck]

What's fucked up is that half of America will defend them no matter what they do. We're screwed. No one even has the balls to stand up to this administration (well maybe a transgender heckler will at least stand up without balls.).

 

[Unkotare]

Obama's biggest nightmare at this point is that his corrupt administration is finally becoming transparent (or that certain willing dupes have finally started to pay a little attention to what's been going on all along).

 

[TheSeventhTiger]

I think most of us would agree that we would be better off with the Mafia running the show, at least they would of taken out those terrorists in Benghazi. and the Mafia likes capitalism!