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Judge blasts Obama governance by ‘secret law’
BY*STEVE STRAUB*
DECEMBER 18, 2013
It’s about time the courts started to intervened and put a stop to the lawless behavior of the Obama administration.
Via the*Miami Herald:
In a Freedom of Information Act victory, a federal judge has slapped the Obama administration for its secretive ways and ordered officials to turn over a bland-sounding foreign policy document.
Chastising what she called “the government’s unwarranted expansion of the*presidential communications privilege at the expense of the public’s interest in disclosure,” U.S. District Judge Ellen Seal Huvelle ruled the*Presidential Policy Directive on Global Development is not exempt from FOIA.
Judge Huvelle’s*20-page decision*took a shot or two, or three, at the Obama administration’s penchant for secrecy.
“The government appears to adopt the cavalier attitude that the*President should be permitted to convey orders throughout the Executive Branch without public oversight, to engage in what is in effect governance by ‘secret law,’” Huvelle wrote.
This is a very small step, yet it’s important nonetheless. It’s the first time an administration sought to apply the executive communication privilege to an executive directive. The administration’s legal posture, the judge declared* was “limitless” and “unbounded.”
Do you agree more judges should intervene and halt the lawless actions of this administration?
Judge blasts Obama governance by ?secret law? - The Federalist Papers
We will NOT go quietly into the night!
BY*STEVE STRAUB*
DECEMBER 18, 2013
It’s about time the courts started to intervened and put a stop to the lawless behavior of the Obama administration.
Via the*Miami Herald:
In a Freedom of Information Act victory, a federal judge has slapped the Obama administration for its secretive ways and ordered officials to turn over a bland-sounding foreign policy document.
Chastising what she called “the government’s unwarranted expansion of the*presidential communications privilege at the expense of the public’s interest in disclosure,” U.S. District Judge Ellen Seal Huvelle ruled the*Presidential Policy Directive on Global Development is not exempt from FOIA.
Judge Huvelle’s*20-page decision*took a shot or two, or three, at the Obama administration’s penchant for secrecy.
“The government appears to adopt the cavalier attitude that the*President should be permitted to convey orders throughout the Executive Branch without public oversight, to engage in what is in effect governance by ‘secret law,’” Huvelle wrote.
This is a very small step, yet it’s important nonetheless. It’s the first time an administration sought to apply the executive communication privilege to an executive directive. The administration’s legal posture, the judge declared* was “limitless” and “unbounded.”
Do you agree more judges should intervene and halt the lawless actions of this administration?
Judge blasts Obama governance by ?secret law? - The Federalist Papers
We will NOT go quietly into the night!
