White House Immune To Freedom of Information Act/Treatment os Whistle Blowers

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

I dub myself the White House Watcher, if no one has any objections.

Yeesh.

This is from Balloon Juice, on Reason Magazine:
"    The thing to take away from this post by Jacob Sullum is that the Bush administration's concession that it classifies information that presents no security risk at all but that would be politically damaging to the president. Actually, it's worse than that. They think that any information that could be politically damaging to the president by definition is a threat to national security. They're using the classification of information to hide evidence of wrongdoing in the White House. And that they'll declassify the same information when doing so would be politically advantageous to the president.

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    Meanwhile, the Department of Justice is claiming that the White House Administration Office is exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, a claim that would be farcical if it weren't so flippin' scary.

    It also raises the question: If the adminstration [sic] office of the highest position in government—the office through which most White House information passes—is immune from the Freedom of Information Act, exactly what is the Freedom of Information Act for?"

This is about this article from Reason Magazine---> http://reason.com/blog/show/122155.html#comments

Also, this-->http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20430153/

This is unacceptable and extremely worrying, to put it mildly.

[Swatopluk]

They follow the political Heisenberg principle (like Cheney being executive/legislative depending on which part comes under scrutiny).
If the SCOTUS hadn't banned it, I'd say let's do the Schrödinger cat experiment on them to find out .

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Why am I not surprised? (Have you seen the 'you know Dick' segments of the Daily Show?).

"We can't rely on _____* in a time of war"

* insert law/amendment/principle here. For this time I would use Cheks & Balances.

[Swatopluk]

Is that a deliberate allusion to the Cheka?

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Nope, to their ability to balance their checkbook.