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In His Final Year In Office Obama Spent Stunning $36.2 Million On Lawsuits To Hide Federal
Records From Public
In addition to being the most divisive President in America's history, it appears as though
Barack Obama and his regime will also go down as the least transparent administration in
history…
According to CBS -The Obama administration in its final year in office spent a record
$36.2 million on legal costs defending its refusal to turn over federal records under
the Freedom of Information Act, according to an Associated Press analysis of new U.S.
data that also showed poor performance in other categories measuring transparency in
government.
For a second consecutive year, the Obama administration set a record for times federal employees told
citizens, journalists and others that despite searching they couldn't find a single page
of files that were requested.
And it set records for outright denial of access to files, refusing to quickly consider
requests described as especially newsworthy, and forcing people to pay for records who
had asked the government to waive search and copy fees.
The government acknowledged when challenged that it had been wrong to initially refuse
to turn over all or parts of records in more than one-third of such cases, the highest
rate in at least six years.
In courtrooms, the number of lawsuits filed by news organizations under the Freedom of
Information Act surged during the past four years, led by the New York Times, Center for
Public Integrity and The Associated Press, according to a litigation study by the Transactional
Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
The AP on Monday settled its 2015 lawsuit against the State Department for files about
Hillary Clinton's time as secretary of state, at AP's request, and received $150,546 from
the department to cover part of its legal fees.
The AP has pending lawsuits against the FBI for records about its decision to impersonate
an AP journalist during a criminal investigation and about who helped the FBI hack into a mass
shooting suspect's iPhone and how much the government paid to do it.
Of the $36.2 million in legal costs fighting such lawsuits last year, the Justice Department
accounted for $12 million, the Homeland Security Department for $6.3 million and the Pentagon
for $4.8 million.
The three departments accounted for more than half the government's total records requests
last year.
The figures reflect the final struggles of the Obama administration during the 2016 election
to meet President Barack Obama's pledge that it was "the most transparent administration
in history," despite wide recognition of serious problems coping with requests under
the information law.
It received a record 788,769 requests for files last year and spent a record $478 million
answering them and employed 4,263 full-time FOIA employees across more than 100 federal
departments and agencies.
That was higher by 142 such employees the previous year.
h/t CBS
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