New DoJ rule a license to lie?

"Barack Obama campaigned for office on the promise to bring more transparency to government.  He pledged to strengthen the Freedom of Information Act; the White House web site published Obama’s memo on FOIA compliance, which commanded the executive branch to follow this principle:

The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.

Those are indeed laudable words.  However, as we know, actions speak louder than words, and an effort to create a new rule for the Department of Justice shows what the Obama administration actually thinks of openness and transparency:

A longtime internal policy that allowed Justice Department officials to deny the existence of sensitive information could become the law of the land — in effect a license to lie — if a newly proposed rule becomes federal regulation in the coming weeks.

The proposed rule directs federal law enforcement agencies, after personnel have determined that documents are too delicate to be released, to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests “as if the excluded records did not exist.” …

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Transparency of thee , but not of me ..... sayeth the Master !!!

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