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CBS News: Obama Reneges on Health Care Transparency (Warning: video runs automatically.)
Firedog Lake: Record Number of Leaks Prosecutions Downplayed by Obama Administration
HuffPo: Obama Whistleblower Prosecutions Lead To Chilling Effect On Press
Also HuffPo: ‘Reporter’s Privilege’ Under Fire From Obama Administration Amid Broader War On Leaks
New Yorker magazine:
When President Barack Obama took office, in 2009, he championed the cause of government transparency, and spoke admiringly of whistle-blowers, whom he described as “often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government.” But the Obama Administration has pursued leak prosecutions with a surprising relentlessness. Including the Drake case, it has been using the Espionage Act to press criminal charges in five alleged instances of national-security leaks—more such prosecutions than have occurred in all previous Administrations combined. The Drake case is one of two that Obama’s Justice Department has carried over from the Bush years.
Gabriel Schoenfeld, a conservative political scientist at the Hudson Institute, who, in his book “Necessary Secrets” (2010), argues for more stringent protection of classified information, says, “Ironically, Obama has presided over the most draconian crackdown on leaks in our history—even more so than Nixon.”
UPDATE: Except, of course, when the leaker damages the Left’s enemies. (End update.)
L.A. Times: Benghazi witnesses grilled in secret on Capitol Hill
CBS News: Government’s answer to “Fast and Furious” records requests: Blank pages
For more than a year, CBS News has been investigating the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms’ “Fast and Furious” operation and related cases that also employed the controversial tactic of “gunwalking.” With Justice Department officials refusing all interview requests to date, CBS News requested numerous public documents through the Freedom of Information Act.
So far, all of the requests that have been answered have been denied in part or in full.
This week, we received a partial response to a request made more than a year ago. It asked for communications involving “Project Gunrunner,” the umbrella program for Fast and Furious, from 2010 through April 2011. Specifically, it sought any communications to which any of the following top Justice officials were a party: Attorney General Eric Holder; Lanny Breuer, Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division; Kevin Carwile, chief of the Capital Case Unit; and Deputy Assistant Attorney Generals Bruce Schwarz and Kenneth Blanco.
The response includes mostly-blank pages.
HuffPo again: Obama Executive Privilege Asserted Over Fast And Furious Documents (Another autoplay video.)
U.S. News: Court: White House Can Keep Visitor Logs Secret
In a potentially devastating blow to transparency, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled Friday that the executive branch can choose not to release White House visitor logs.
The court ruling was in reaction to a lawsuit from Judicial Watch seeking thousands of records not voluntarily disclosed by the Obama administration.
And it’s not just .gov documents and employees:
New York Times: Head of The A.P. Criticizes Seizure of Phone Records
And now CNN:
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Finding all those didn’t take long. How’s that Hopenchange going?
Just shut up and drink your Kool-Aid take your soma.