Judicial Watch Sues Obama Administration Over Access to Mortgage Docs

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Charles N. Davis

Judicial Watch, the organization that investigates and fights government corruption, announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit on January 3, 2012, against the Obama Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to obtain documents pertaining to accusations of fraud against the nation’s five largest mortgage companies [...]

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Obama Administration Issues WikiLeaks Executive Order….

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Charles N. Davis

By executive order, President Obama will instruct federal agencies today to better safeguard their classified secrets, to set up internal audit systems, and to make sure that reluctance to share critical intelligence in the aftermath of the WikiLeaks exposure does not hamper collaboration across agencies. The so-called “WikiLeaks” executive order has been long awaited by [...]

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Obama Visitor Logs: Riddled With Holes

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Charles N. Davis

The Obama administration talks up the importance of government transparency, but White House visitor logs are anything but. That’s according to a new investigation by iWatch News. The White House website proudly boasts of making available “over 1,000,000 records of everyone who’s come through the doors of the White House” via a searchable database. Yet our [...]

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I Have a Feeling…that Rep. Issa is About to Experience the Waiting Game

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Charles N. Davis

Image via Wikipedia The Associated Press reports that the committee’s chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., wants to get the documents to determine just how well the Obama administration is faring in its transparency effort. The committee is looking for lists of who sought federal documents and what happened to their requests. Agencies have until Feb. [...]

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