'Most transparent' White House ever rewrote the FOIA to suppress politically sensitive docs | WashingtonExaminer.com It's Sunshine Week <http://www.sunshineweek.org/>, so perhaps some enterprising White House reporter will ask press secretary Jay Carney<http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/jay-carney>why President Obama <http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/barack-obama> rewrote the Freedom of Information Act <http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/foia> without telling the rest of America. The rewrite came in an April 15, 2009, memo<http://causeofaction.org/assets/uploads/2013/06/White-House-memo-equities.pdf?92f52c>from then-White House Counsel Greg Craig instructing the executive branch to let White House officials review any documents sought by FOIA requestors that involved "White House equities." That phrase is nowhere to be found in the FOIA, yet the Obama White House<http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/white-house>effectively amended the law to create a new exception to justify keeping public documents locked away from the public. http://washex.am/1eHiP3p Source: http://washingtonexaminer.com/most-transparent-white-house-ever-rewrote-the-foia-to-suppress-politically-sensitive-docs/article/2545824 See if people are clicking on this link: http://washex.am/1eHiP3p+ 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]