Over 8,000 requests for information from the White House have been denied in the past two years, and now, even the Left is getting tired of Obama's duplicity.

Editor's Note:  keep in mind that this complaint comes from the Left.  They laughed at us conservatives for making the same complaint,  when it was happening, more than two years ago.  There were a number of articles in the Conservative Mainstream recording the fact that Obama had a policy against "paper trails,"  that he and his advisers would, more often than not,  meet with lobbyists away from the White House complex,  in coffee houses and private offices to avoid detection, that his Administration encouraged the use of private email accounts and private phone services as it worked tirelessly to "privatize" information that should have been made to the public.    

The Obama administration is evil.  Sorry, there is no other adjective to describe it at this point.  They know they are corrupt, they embrace their corruption and now they are doing everything possible to silence anyone who dares call them out on it.  The latest case of Obama’s war on whistleblowers relates to how the Scientific Integrity Officer within the Interior Department, Dr. Paul Houser, was attacked . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . when he started raising some scientific and environmental questions [concerning environmental issues related to the removal of a number of hydraulic dams - editor].  According to Kate Sheppard of Mother Jones.com:

When he raised those concerns to then-DOI press secretary Adam Fetcher, Houser says he was told that he should not write anything about them in any electronic correspondence. “He wanted a hard copy, no email,” says Houser, in order to avoid creating any internal correspondence that could be subject to a Freedom of Information Act request. (Fetcher is now the deputy national press secretary for Obama’s reelection campaign.) Houser says his boss, who was out of the office during the initial exchange, also chastised him for emailing other scientists working on Klamath regarding the release. “I was told that the secretary of interior wants to remove the dams, so my actions weren’t helpful,” says Houser.

See how Mr. Fetcher was punished for covering up the truth.  He was promoted!  How about this revelation from Glenn Greenwald’s latest article on a related topic.

Recently disclosed emails revealed that Jim Messina — then-former White House deputy chief of staff, now the Obama campaign manager – deliberately met with lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry at coffee houses rather than the White House when drafting the health care bill, and used his personal rather than official email account to communicate with them, in order to evade record-preservation and transparency obligations).

Wow.  We are in very big trouble.  This is not the time for silence; this is the time for action.  The United States is progressing into a mindset best characterized by the Middle Ages.  Spread this info far and wide.

In Liberty,
Mike

"Mike"  a fellow conservative,  asks us to pass on this information.  We just did.  

As a related sidelight,  we have the very liberal Salon,  lodging a similar complaint:  

From the far, far Left, Salon.com gives us this complaint:    That the Obama administration has waged an unprecedented war on whistleblowers is by now well-known and well-documented, as is its general fixation on not just maintaining butincreasing even the most extreme and absurd levels of secrecy. Unsurprisingly, this ethos — that the real criminals are those who expose government wrongdoing, not those who engage in that wrongdoing — now pervades lower levels of the Executive Branch as well.

And the beat goes on.  The fact of the matter is this,  Midknight Review was one of the first to decry the illegal activities of the Obama Administration and to document its penchant for secrecy and control.  None of this comes as a surprise,  but I must admit,  I did not believe the Left would ever go to war with this Administration.  Of course,  they waited unto after the election,  proving their collective willingness to cover for the Administration,  until such time as is least damaging to "the Leftist cause."  

Hypocrites all !!