I have a series of Freedom of Information Act requests pending with NASA, DoE and its appendage the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), EPA, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). These all are in various stages of undress, from our waiting on an initial determination (EPA — seeking internal discussions of how and why they arrived early on at the aggressively pushed talking point that Climategate e-mails were “hacked,” a defensive and unsubstantiated political explanation what more likely was a leak), to waiting for the resolution of our complaint against NASA for withholding “McIntyre” and RealClimate-related documents, to waiting for the clock to strike to exercise our appellate rights with the judicial branch.
Oh, and with one other taxpayer-funded agency at the heart of Climategate flatly stating that the taxpayer may not see what the taxpayer has paid for, if this particular agency has it. We shall see.
We’ve been having some fun at the state level, too, which we’ll spring if the telegraphed miscreance by state officials is followed through on such that we have to impose some balance. Sorry for the cryptic mention, but some of this just has to be held unless and until some truly reprehensible behavior hinted at manifests itself.
So far we have encountered a few serious outrages of how the Obama administration is using taxpayer resources and how they leap at the urging of political favored lobbies (which is one of several ways we have seen they have tremendous influence, despite another vaunted Obama pledge). And very soon you will read about a new howler of an excuse as to why they refuse to release documents prepared with outside lobbyists. We have discovered and will detail the lengths to which they go to hide things from the taxpayer as a matter of course — how they are clinging like grim death to keep things that you paid for, and that we have managed to identify, from your prying eyes. There’s an agenda to be pushed!
But for today, I see this experience that the U.S. Chamber is having with the Obama administration’s interpretation of its much-touted “transparency.” So transparent, if fact, that you can’t see it.