{"id":3424,"date":"2007-09-10T10:27:03","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T16:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2019-10-13T12:46:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T18:46:21","slug":"shutting-down-transparent-government-bush-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/shutting-down-transparent-government-bush-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Shutting Down Transparent Government, Bush-Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/bushescape.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/bushescape.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>By <\/strong><strong>Ruth Rosen<\/strong><strong>, <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/\"><strong>Tomdispatch.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disgraceful, shameful, illegal, and yes, dangerous. These are words that come to mind every time the Bush administration makes yet another attempt to consolidate executive power, while wrapping itself in secrecy and deception.<\/p>\n<p>And its officials never stop. In May, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a nonprofit group, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/08\/22\/AR2007082202441.html?nav=rss_nation\">filed<\/a> a lawsuit seeking information from the White House Office of Administration about an estimated five million e-mail messages that <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080514160013\/http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/090607N.shtml\">mysteriously vanished<\/a> from White House computer servers between March 2003 and October 2005. Congress wants to investigate whether these messages contain evidence about the firing of nine United States attorneys who may have refused to use their positions to help Republican candidates or harm Democratic ones.<\/p>\n<p>The administration&#8217;s first response to yet another scandal was to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/08\/22\/AR2007082202441.html?nav=rss_nation\">scrub<\/a> the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request section from the White House Office website. One day it was there; the next day it had disappeared. Then, Bush-appointed lawyers from the Justice Department tried to convince a federal judge that the White House Office of Administration was not subject to scrutiny by the Freedom of Information Act because it wasn&#8217;t an &#8220;agency.&#8221; The newly labeled non-agency, in fact, had its own FOIA officer and had responded to 65 FOIA requests during the previous 12 months. 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