June 17, 2009
Fellow citizens, are you aware other regular citizens just like you are having to sue the Secret Service just to find out what other regular old citizens visited the White House?
Regular citizens suing barry’s protectors just to find out what other regular citizens visited the most public house in America owned bu the public.
They’re not trying to uncover the true identities of foreign dignitaries or CIA agents. They just want to know which coal and energy executives visited with the man you still believe is Mr Transparency.
What is your threshold for transparency?
How many lawsuits for release of information from Mr Transparency do you need?
Well here’s one brought by CREW: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. You would think Mr Transparency would go out of his way to cooperate considering his devotion to ethics reform — when it doesn’t apply to him like the lobbyists. And Sen Grassley has been waiting since mid-March for Mr Transparency to become transparent and release a list of those lobbyists that his administration was going to be the first to ban…himself excluded of course.
CREW requested the visitor records of top coal executives per the Freedom of Information Act – which barry says is vital — so they could investigate whether there had been any undue influence by them on barry’s administration’s energy policy. They were stymied by the real barry transparency policy: you get nothing he doesn’t want you to have – which seems to cover everything anyone asks for.
CREW was told that the visitor logs of regular citizens were protected by presidential privilege. Hence one more lawsuit trying to force Mr Transparency to actually be transparent.
CREW noted they have been successful in this type of complaint before.
