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TRANSPARENCY: House Panel Wants Homeland Security Documents: ?A House committee has asked the Home?

By Glenn Reynolds

TRANSPARENCY: House Panel Wants Homeland Security Documents: “A House committee has asked the Homeland Security Department to provide documents about an agency policy that required political appointees to review many Freedom of Information Act requests, according to a letter obtained Sunday by The Associated Press. . . . The political appointees wanted information about those requesting the materials, and in some cases the release of documents considered politically sensitive was delayed, according to numerous e-mails that were obtained by the AP. . . . According to the directive, political aides were to review requests related to Obama policy priorities, or anything related to controversial or sensitive subjects. Requests from journalists, lawmakers and activist groups were to also to be examined.”

Under FOIA, the identity of the requestor is legally irrelevant. Politically, not so much I guess.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 17, 2011 (boomark / email).