Morning Minute: Transparent Obama - 3.15
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Sean Hannity
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🗓️ 15 March 2017
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A new report shows that President Obama's administration spent over $36 million defending the government against requests made under the Freedom of Information Law. Could you imagine the liberal media outrage if Donald Trump decided to fight so many FOIL requests?!
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Obama's most transparent government in history, well, that didn't live up to its |
| 0:04.1 | promise. |
| 0:05.1 | Washington Times now can report, in its final year in office, the Obama administration |
| 0:09.1 | spent a record $36.2 million on legal costs, defending its refusal to turn over federal |
| 0:16.0 | records under the Freedom of Information Act. |
| 0:18.1 | According to an AP analysis of new U.S. data that also showed poor performance and other |
| 0:23.0 | categories that measure transparency in government. |
| 0:26.2 | The U.S. administration set records for outright denial of access to files, refusing to |
| 0:31.6 | quickly consider requests described as especially newsworthy and forced people to pay for |
| 0:36.8 | records that would ask the government to waive search and copy fees. |
| 0:39.8 | By the way, where is the press talking about journalism now? |
| 0:43.2 | Could you imagine if Trump does this? |
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