Obama administration (you know, the most transparent) ‘sets new record’ for denying records

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In about a third of instances, the government conceded that initial decisions to withhold or censor documents were “improper under the law — but only when it was challenged.”

• The backlog of unanswered requests at year’s end went up 55 percent to 200,000-plus.

• “The government more than ever censored materials it turned over or fully denied access to them, in 250,581 cases or 39 percent of all requests.”

And then there’s the juicy part of the story, which needs no abridgment:

In emails that AP obtained from the National Archives and Records Administration about who pays for Michelle Obama’s expensive dresses, the agency blacked-out a sentence under part of the law intended to shield personal, private information, such as Social Security numbers, phone numbers or home addresses. But it failed to censor the same passage on a subsequent page.

The sentence: “We live in constant fear of upsetting the White House


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