Yes, a Justice Department lawyer actually argued to a federal district court judge that there should be an exemption from Freedom of Information Act disclosure rules for documents that would subject senior administration officials to embarrassment -- as in on late-night television.
This is not just wrong, it's perversely wrong. By contrast, a good rule of thumb would be: The more embarrassing, the more we need to know. The Justice Department and the White House should be forced to renounce this assertion immediately.
And if this wasn't bizarre enough, consider the irony that in the case at hand, the Obama Justice Department is fighting the release of a transcript of former vice president Dick Cheney's testimony to special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald about his role in the outing of Valerie Plame as a CIA agent.
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It strikes me that embarrassment and ridicule is the best way to deal with these statist SOBs.
They're fighting this because they know that any secret documents that slam republicans will be leaked to the srm(state run media). They are afraid that the shit-load pile of docs relating to what the demosocialists have been doing might be forced out.
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