Grading the Government: How the White House Targets Document Requesters - Cause of Action Three years after the above testimony, Cause of Action confirmed that Congressman Chaffetz was right about the source of authority that required "special White House review." In an April 2009 memo that we obtained from the Department of Justice (DOJ) last year, the Counsel to the President reminds department and agency general counsels to send to the White House for consultation all records involving "White House equities<http://causeofaction.org/assets/uploads/2013/06/White-House-Equities1.png>" collected in response to any document request. This unpublicized memo stands in stark contrast to President Obama's January 2009 memo on FOIA<http://www2.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/news/20090121/2009_FOIA_memo.pdf>and transparency, and Attorney General Holder's March 2009 FOIA memo <http://www.justice.gov/ag/foia-memo-march2009.pdf>, each of which were publicly lauded as models of transparency. http://bit.ly/1dIOLk1 Source: http://causeofaction.org/grading-government-white-house-targets-document-requesters/ See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/1dIOLk1+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA IGP [log in to unmask] Dallas, Texas Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterakurilecz Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
