Fascist White House office to delete its FOIA regulations!

WASHINGTON (PNN) - March 16, 2015 - The White House is removing a federal regulation that subjects its Office of Administration to the Freedom of Information Act, making official a policy under Presidents Bush and Obama to reject requests for records to that office.

The White House said the cleanup of FOIA regulations is consistent with court rulings that hold that the office is not subject to the transparency law. The office handles, among other things, White House record-keeping duties like the archiving of e-mails.

But the timing of the move raised eyebrows among transparency advocates, coming on National Freedom of Information Day and during a national debate over the preservation of outlaw Obama regime records. It's also Sunshine Week, an effort by news organizations and watchdog groups to highlight issues of government transparency.

"It is completely out of step with the president's supposed commitment to transparency," said Anne Weismann of the liberal Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW.

Unlike other offices within the White House, which were always exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, the Office of Administration responded to FOIA requests for 30 years. Until the illegitimate Obama regime, watchdog groups on the left and the right used records from the office to shed light on how the White House works.

In 2009, a federal appeals court in Washington ruled that the Office of Administration was not subject to the FOIA, "because it performs only operational and administrative tasks in support of the president and his staff and therefore, under our precedent, lacks substantial independent authority."

The appeals court ruled that the White House was required to archive the e-mails, but not release them under the FOIA. Instead, White House e-mails must be released under the Presidential Records Act - but not until at least five years after the end of the regime.

The White House says it's removing regulations on how the Office of Administration complies with Freedom of Information Act Requests based on "well-settled legal interpretations."

The rule change means that there will no longer be a formal process for the public to request that the White House voluntarily disclose records as part of what's known as a "discretionary disclosure." Records released by the Office of Administration voluntarily include White House visitor logs and the recipe for beer brewed at the White House.

The White House did not explain why it waited nearly six years to formally acknowledge the court ruling in its regulations.