by Jillian Kay Melchior National Review Online The Obama administration is fond of claiming it is the “most transparent administration in history,” but that’s not the way it looks to people who have tried to gain access to records they are legally entitled to... The Internal Revenue Service’s handling of the Lois Lerner correspondence is [...]
by Chris Horner As Appearing in the Washington Examiner Text messages sent on a private telephone between Maureen McDonnell, wife of Bob McDonnell, and businessman Johnnie Williams are key evidence in the corruption trial of the formerVirginia governor, according to the Washington Post. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s aides also produced text messages in the “Bridgegate” investigation, again using private telephones. [...]
For Immediate Release: July 30, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works Releases Minority Report: The Chain of Environmental Command: How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama’s EPA Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works released [...]
by Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller The Environmental Protection Agency inspector general has been accused of covering up Obama administration “transparency abuses violating several federal laws” by conservatives in the wake of a report ostensibly absolving the agency any wrongdoing in handling government records requests. A recent EPA IG report claimed there was “no indications of [...]
by Stephan Dinan Washington Times The EPA’s inspector general concluded that the agency did not show bias in denying fee waivers on open-records requests from conservative-leaning groups while approving those from liberal-leaning groups, according to an audit released Wednesday... The Energy & Environment Legal Institute, a conservative-leaning group that has regularly battled the EPA over [...]
Kevin Bogardus E&E reporter The Environment & Energy Legal Institute, a conservative-leaning group, blasted U.S. EPA in a new report over allegations of bias against agency critics' public records fee waiver requests. But EPA's inspector general office released its own report today that it found no evidence of favoring certain groups over others while processing Freedom of [...]
For Immediate Release: July 16, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org EPA Bias on FOIA Fee Waivers – A Report on Abuses and Imminent Office of the Inspector General Whitewash The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) and the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic (FME Law) released a report today illuminating how, for the second time in [...]
By Chaim Mandelbaum FME Law Counsel On June 5, 2013, the first of a series of news stories appeared revealing the extent of the information leaked by NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Ultimately, this information exposed a massive effort on the part of the National Security Agency (NSA) to collect “metadata” about electronic communications such as [...]
by Kevin Mooney The Daily Signal What have top officials within the Environmental Protection Agency been telling various environmental groups in their phone, email and text messages? That’s a question Chris Horner...can’t answer yet because the EPA claims it does not store this kind of data—in violation of the law. But it’s possible the National [...]
For Immediate Release: June 9, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org E&E Legal and FME Law Sue NSA to Compel Production Under FOIA of Records that EPA Destroyed but Spy Agency Grabbed; Records Relate to Administrator Gina McCarthy’s Destroyed Text Messages, Former Administrator Lisa Jackson’s Verizon Account She Used to Correspond with Lobbyists Washington, D.C. – Today, [...]
