PJ Media » DOJ Proposes Lying to American Public … Then Backs Off (Updated)

PJ Media » DOJ Proposes Lying to American Public … Then Backs Off (Updated): Fox News reported last week that the Obama administration is promulgating a new rule which would allow Justice Department officials to lie about whether or not records exist when asked for as part of a Freedom of Information Act request:

A longtime internal policy that allowed Justice Department officials to deny the existence of sensitive information could become the law of the land — in effect a license to lie — if a newly proposed rule becomes federal regulation in the coming weeks.

The proposed rule directs federal law enforcement agencies, after personnel have determined that documents are too delicate to be released, to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests “as if the excluded records did not exist.”

An interesting position from “the most transparent administration ever.”

Their reasoning for this new policy is interesting as well, from an administration which has repeatedly slammed its predecessor as being secretive:


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