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They Just Keep Falling — ACORNs, That Is

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By Chuck Ring (GadaboutBlogalot ©2009)
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Is there never to be an end to the ignorant tricks that some ACORN offices and employees indulge in through hiding of actions and possible very serious crimes?  Now it is alleged the ACORN office in San Diego attempted to dispose of an estimated 20,000 pages of their office documents. This after Attorney General (AG) Jerry Brown announced on October 1st, he would investigate ACORN and the two young people (James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles) who exposed some of the activities in which ACORN was ready to participate. You can hear an ACORN official speak to AG Brown’s investigation right here

Andrew Breitbart of  BigGovernment.com recently issued what amounts to a challenge to United States Attorney General (USAG) Holder to begin an investigation of ACORN’s alleged crimes and today Mr. Breitbart announced what he refers to as the “evidentiary phase” of his involvement with the scutiny of ACORN’s activities. Quoted below are some of Mr. Breitbart’s remarks concerning the dump of the above mentioned documents:

On October 1, California Attorney General Jerry Brown, who once again aspires to be the state’s governor, announced that he was investigating  not just ACORN in California, but also the truth tellers who exposed the alleged corruption and illegality.

Last night, I hosted a three-hour show on KFI 640 AM, the largest radio  station in the country, and use the opportunity to announce the  existence of 20,000 deeply sensitive and highly political documents  discovered in the dumpster behind ACORN in San Diego on October 9,  nine days after ACORN was announced to be under state investigation.

Some might call that “obstruction of justice.

Mr. Breitbart posted audio links from the three hour radio program he mentions. You can access the audio clips by going to the article which is located here just before the last two paragraphs of the article by Mr. Breitbart. You’ll find the audio astonishing and in some ways unbelievable.

Mr. Breitbart has offered to make available, the documents he has secured, to AG Brown and USAG Holder. Will they accept the offer … not very likely. Wagers?

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FOIA … Department of Labor Just Ignores The Process

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By Chuck Ring (GadaboutBlogalot ©2009)
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According to Don Loos writing at Breitbart.com  the Secretary of Labor (SOL) and her crew seem to care not one iota about their duty to respond to a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request. The National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation filed an action in United States District Court on November 20th, asking the court to compel  the SOL to comply with a FOIA  request submitted to the Department of Labor (DOL) in April of this year.

According to the suit, the DOL has neither sent the information requested, nor have they indicated when the request is to be honored. FOIA requests under federal law are to be fulfilled within 20 working days or at least, the party served must indicate why it cannot be returned with the requested material. We all remember that President Obama pledged an open and responsive administration and went to pains to record his promise through the United States Department of Justice‘s Office of Information Policy through this memorandum as provided in Mr. Loo’s article:

 

On his first full day in office, January 21, 2009, President Obama issued a memorandum to the heads of all departments and agencies on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The President directed that FOIA “should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.” Moreover, the President instructed agencies that information should not be withheld merely because “public officials might be embarrassed by disclosure, because errors and failures might be revealed, or because of speculative or abstract fears.”
Agencies were directed to respond to requests “promptly and in a spirit of cooperation.” The President also called on agencies to “adopt a presumption in favor of disclosure” and to apply that presumption “to all decisions involving [the] FOIA.” This presumption of disclosure includes taking “affirmative steps to make information public,” and utilizing “modern technology to inform citizens about what is known and done by their Government.”
It is difficult to determine why DOL has seen fit to ignore the FOIA request and theirPresident’s dictates. Perhaps, the rest of the story will reveal “what evil lurks in the minds of men” … or women. As Mr. Loos continues his story, and if we examine all the documents provided by the links in his story, it probably will not be difficult to see where the rub is. Click here for the rest of the story (see story here). Please click on the link below if you want to fall out of your chair.
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