Another skeleton from the previous administration falls out of the closet.

Since the chosen one has been out of office, more things are coming to light. Many just knew that there was much chicanery going on but probably not to the true extent. Now the public is seeing more than it could ever imagine.
The following article discusses another exposed iniquity.

Barack Hussein spent over $36 million of our money on lawsuits in 2016 keeping federal records secret and away from the eyes of We the People
by Thomas Madison
March 17, 2018

Try not to laugh until you reach the end of the 22-second video below, just to see if you can do it.

Remember when Barack Hussein declared that his administration was the most transparent in American history? Wasn’t that a hoot?

Fake birth certificate, sealed academic records, bogus Social Security number, fake draft registration, the most lawless, corrupt, secret administration since America’s founding. And, with an almost straight face, Hussein proclaimed that his was “the most transparent administration in history?” Not kidding!

Would it surprise you to know that Barack Hussein spent $36 million in 2016 alone on lawsuits fighting the release of federal records that should have been released routinely per FOIA requests?

Yeah, I didn’t think so. You know Hussein too well after eight years of the most egregious criminal corruption that we are just beginning to uncover. Check out his evil smile at the end of the video as he pronounces, “This is the most transparent administration in history.”

WASHINGTON (CBS)– The Obama administration in its final year in office spent a record $36.2 million on legal costs defending its refusal to turn over federal records under the Freedom of Information Act, according to an Associated Press analysis of new U.S. data that also showed poor performance in other categories measuring transparency in government.

For a second consecutive year, the Obama administration set a record for times federal employees told citizens, journalists and others that despite searching they couldn’t find a single page of files that were requested.

And it set records for outright denial of access to files, refusing to quickly consider requests described as especially newsworthy, and forcing people to pay for records who had asked the government to waive search and copy fees.

The government acknowledged when challenged that it had been wrong to initially refuse to turn over all or parts of records in more than one-third of such cases, the highest rate in at least six years.

In courtrooms, the number of lawsuits filed by news organizations under the Freedom of Information Act surged during the past four years, led by the New York Times, Center for Public Integrity and The Associated Press, according to a litigation study by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. The AP on Monday settled its 2015 lawsuit against the State Department for files about Hillary Clinton’s time as secretary of state, at AP’s request, and received $150,546 from the department to cover part of its legal fees.

And, remember how Comey, McCabe, et al. have been boasting of the impeccable integrity and character of the FBI?

The AP has pending lawsuits against the FBI for records about its decision to impersonate an AP journalist during a criminal investigation and about who helped the FBI hack into a mass shooting suspect’s iPhone and how much the government paid to do it.

Of the $36.2 million in legal costs fighting such lawsuits last year, the Justice Department accounted for $12 million, the Homeland Security Department for $6.3 million and the Pentagon for $4.8 million. The three departments accounted for more than half the government’s total records requests last year.

The figures reflect the final struggles of the Obama administration during the 2016 election to meet President Barack Obama’s pledge that it was “the most transparent administration in history,” despite wide recognition of serious problems coping with requests under the information law. It received a record 788,769 requests for files last year and spent a record $478 million answering them and employed 4,263 full-time FOIA employees across more than 100 federal departments and agencies. That was higher by 142 such employees the previous year.
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Thomas Madison:    EX-Army officer and stone-cold patriot, Thomas Madison is on a mission to contribute in any and every way to the restoration of and strict obedience to the United States Constitution, that divinely-inspired, concise, intentionally and specifically broad (wrap your head around that oxymoron) blueprint which has gifted the world with the concept and realization of individual liberty and unlimited prosperity. We, as a nation, have lost our way. We have spent the past one-hundred years attempting to fix what was never broken. As with building anything, when you can't figure it out, consult the blueprint. So too with rebuilding America, the blueprint for which is the United States Constitution.

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