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The Obama administration has set a new record for rejecting Freedom of Information Act requests, according to a report published Friday.
The administration censored materials or rejected requests for access in a record 596,095 cases, or 77 percent of the time, according to the annual review conducted by the Associated Press. That's an increase of 12 percent since Obama's first year in office.
That figure includes 250,024 instances in which officials said they couldn't find records, an individual refused to pay for copies, or the government denied the request as unreasonable or improper. When those are excluded, the administration says, 93 percent of FOIA requests are at least partially fulfilled …. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com
As they say in Cuckooland
The only people who don’t want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide.