Barack Obama Sets New Record Denying Censoring Government Files<\/a><\/p>\n WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Obama administration set a record again for censoring government files or outright denying access to them last year under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, according to a new analysis of federal data by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n The government took longer to turn over files when it provided any, said more regularly that it couldn’t find documents and refused a record number of times to turn over files quickly that might be especially newsworthy.<\/p>\n It also acknowledged in nearly 1 in 3 cases that its initial decisions to withhold or censor records were improper under the law \u2014 but only when it was challenged.<\/p>\n Its backlog of unanswered requests at year’s end grew remarkably by 55 percent to more than 200,000. It also cut by 375, or about 9 percent, the number of full-time employees across government paid to look for records. That was the fewest number of employees working on the issue in five years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Please read the rest here<\/a>, I beg you.<\/p>\n In fact, I beseech<\/i> you. I implore<\/i> you. Tell me — tell us — how this sort of thing makes you hate one man and yet love another.<\/p>\n As comedian Jon Lovitz tweets:<\/p>\n
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