{"id":3961,"date":"2011-01-29T09:38:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T17:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3961"},"modified":"2011-01-30T06:02:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T14:02:14","slug":"daryl-issas-blacklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/29\/daryl-issas-blacklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Darrell Issa’s Blacklist"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has come to my attention that Republican Grand Inquisitor, Darrell Issa, is taking names.\u00a0 He wants to know who has made every inquiry to the government under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).\u00a0 Issa claims that the purpose is to ensure that Americans get good service.\u00a0 If you believe that, please send me a check for $1 million to cover the down payment for a great timeshare at our post new resort: Kansas Alpine Glacier Ski Lodge.\u00a0 Really!\u00a0 When have Republicans ever cared about the quality of service to anyone but millionaires, billionaires and criminal corporations?<\/span><\/p>\n

\"29issa\"Representative Darrell Issa calls it a way to promote transparency<\/strong>: a request for the names of hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens, business executives, journalists and others who have requested copies of federal government documents in recent years<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Mr. Issa, a California Republican and the new chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, says he wants to make sure agencies respond in a timely fashion<\/strong> to Freedom of Information Act requests and do not delay them out of political considerations.<\/p>\n

But his extraordinary request worries some civil libertarians. It \u201cjust seems sort of creepy that one person in the government could track who is looking into what and what kinds of questions they are asking,\u201d said David Cuillier, a University of Arizona journalism professor and chairman of the Freedom of Information Committee at the Society of Professional Journalists. \u201cIt is an easy way to target people who he might think are up to no good<\/span><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Issa sent a letter<\/a> on Tuesday asking 180 federal agencies, from the Department of Defense to the Social Security Administration, for electronic files containing the names of people who requested the documents, the date of their requests and a description of information they sought. For those still pending after more than 45 days, he also asked for any communication between the requestor and the federal agency. The request covers the final three years of Bush administration and the first two years of President Obama\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur interest is not in the private citizens who make the requests,\u201d said Kurt Bardella, a spokesman for Mr. Issa. \u201cWe are looking at government responses to these Freedom of Information requests and the only way to measure that is to tally all that information.\u201d\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Think back, if you will, to how Bush Regime Republicans fired the US Attorneys that refuses to file bogus criminal charges against Democratic candidates immediately before elections.\u00a0 Think back, if you will, to the scam scandal Republicans perpetrated against ACORN to keep them from registering minority voters.\u00a0 Think back, if you will, how Republican congressional aides traveled to Florida to brutally assault Florida election workers to delay the recount long enough for SCOTUS to help Bush steal the 2000 election?\u00a0 There is no crime too sleazy for Republicans to commit in their quest to establish a one-party regime.\u00a0 Mark my words.\u00a0 If you investigate things Darrell and his Republican thugs don\u2019t want investigated, they will take vengeance against you.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has come to my attention that Republican Grand Inquisitor, Darrell Issa, is taking names.\u00a0 He wants to know who has made every inquiry to the government under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).\u00a0 Issa claims that the purpose is to ensure that Americans get good service.\u00a0 If you believe that, please send me a […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}