Saturday, July 09, 2011
"PJMedia Sues Department of Defense for Climate Conference Info"
The "transparency" buzzword is constantly being shown to be completely phony.
Our elected officials really don't want to disclose anything at all.
The "Freedom of Information" legislation they have passed has so many loopholes that even when information IS released, it's likely not very revealing.
This case seems quite simple on it's face, so we should wonder what's really going on?...
Our elected officials really don't want to disclose anything at all.
The "Freedom of Information" legislation they have passed has so many loopholes that even when information IS released, it's likely not very revealing.
This case seems quite simple on it's face, so we should wonder what's really going on?...
Patrick Richardson tells this story at PajamasMedia.com:
"Almost three months ago, PJMedia reported the story of a simple Freedom of Information Act request.
Our own Richard Pollock submitted a request to the Department of Defense to try and find out just who was on the four airplanes that flew to Copenhagen for the climate change conference in 2009, how much fuel they burned doing it, and how much it cost. The general thrust of the story was likely to have been “look how much fuel they used going to a conference to decide how much fuel we get to burn.”
Fifteen months later, Richard got back … four blank pages.
After making a few calls and rattling a few cages, we were told that there were many more documents but that the various reporting agencies hadn’t released them yet and a release was “forthcoming soon.”
Two months later still nothing."
