“US reconsiders, now says it’s not really OK to lie to reporters.”
“Last month, the Justice Department proposed a rule revision that would let government agencies tell requesters there is no such document — even if there is. According to the proposal, which was retrieved by the nonprofit investigative project ProPublica, agencies would be allowed to “respond to the request as if the excluded records did not exist.”
What a disappointment! We all know Bush-Cheney would have simply lied and not gone for a rule change. And did. They were dishonest, lying scumbags. And we all know that being an honest, legitimate scumbag is still being a scumbag.
Not good, not good at all.
Arf