“That is why it is not enough to change parties. It is time to change our politics. We don’t need another President who puts politics and loyalty over candor…. We don’t need another President who shuts the door on the American people when they make policy. The American people are not the problem in this country – they are the answer. And it’s time we had a President who acted like that.
I will always tell the American people the truth…. It’s what I’m doing in this campaign. It’s what I’ll do as President. I’ll lead a new era of openness…. I’ll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information, and restore the balance we’ve lost between the necessarily secret and the necessity of openness in a democratic society by creating a new National Declassification Center. We’ll protect sources and methods, but we won’t use sources and methods as pretexts to hide the truth. Our history doesn’t belong to Washington, it belongs to America.”
– Barack Obama, October 2, 2007
“Fuck transparency. Fuck the court. Fuck freedom of information. Fuck off.”
– New Obama Administration policy on Freedom of Information, May 13, 2009
Maybe he was just testing out his new power to see if he could stop a Freedom of Information Act.
Presidentin’
Rand Paul to make MAJOR announcement Thursday night on the Rachael Maddow television show.
Lindsey Grahamnesty threatens to make Pelosi testify:
” “I don’t want to retry Nancy Pelosi, that’s not my goal but if you’re going to accuse these people in the Bush administration of being evil and committing a crime, then if she was told about [interrogation tactics] I want to know what she was told,” Graham said during a break in a hearing on Bush-era interrogation practices.
Graham spoke to reporters during a Judiciary subcommittee hearing entitled “What Went Wrong: Torture and the Office of Legal Counsel in the Bush Administration.” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), the chairman of the Judiciary subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts, convened the hearing…”