A matter of trust

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Do you trust someone whole lies?

Will you trust someone who tells you ahead of time they may lie?

Getting warm yet?

Please note carefully. This link takes you to the Federal Register, the place where the federal government announces all kinds of things.

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-03-21/html/2011-6473.htm

I tell you - This proposed rule will not go before Congress. It is an Executive Branch decision. In other words, the current president (who has proposed this rule) will sign it into being without going before Congress.

Since you are not going to wade through the proposed rule, I summarize:

The government, specifically the president, is giving the government, specifically the president and the justice department, permission to lie.

The rule will let the federal government lie. The rule will let the federal government say paper does not exist, when in fact it does exist.

Does this make it right?

In other words, the government will have official sanction and permission to lie. Never mind the government has a long history of lying.


This is an attempt to get around the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

By saying certain paperwork does not exist, the government hopes the people looking for the paper trail will go away.

Those looking for the paper trail can sue.

But if government is busy lying, all government has to do is lie more.

I remind you, the current president is behind this rule.

The current president wants government to be able to lie to you and make it permissible and as legal as an executive decision can make it.

I ask you president supporters, is this man you want as president? Someone who seeks to make lies legal and a matter of routine?

Maybe not invented...

A good synopsis: http://www.propublica.org/article/government-could-hide-existence-of-records-under-foia-rule-proposal

Where I got the news to begin with: http://www.onthemedia.org/2011/oct/28/government-vs-freedom-information-act/

I tell you now, the information this rule attempts to block is already covered, and blocked, under existing law and case law. Case law means the courts have ruled on this. Under these items, government cannot legally say the paperwork doesn't exist. Government must say it exists, but we're not giving you access to it for reasons permitted under the law and case law.

Fact remains: The current presidents wants government to be able to lie and that be legal.

If you support this decision and the man behind the decision, why should anyone trust you?