“Most Transparent Administration Ever” fights to keep White House racism scandal emails hidden

by Joshua Riddle on July 24, 2014 in News & Politics
For those who don’t remember, here is a flashback to the Sherrod case.
Breitbart’s argument is simple and straightforward: Regardless of what else is in Sherrod’s speech, the first video released on BigGovernment.com features Sherrod telling a tale of racism that is received by the NAACP audience with laughter and cheers. They weren’t cheering redemption; they were cheering discrimination. Upon hearing the cheers, Sherrod fails to offer any immediate clarification and even smiles right along with them.
Naturally, Sherrod was fired, then was unfired, then lawyered up. What a tangled we weave. Now let’s jump back back to the present.
The Obama administration is fighting to keep secret hundreds of pages of emails detailing White House involvement in the 2010 firing and attempted rehiring of Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod after the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart published a blog post and video clips suggesting Sherrod was a racist.
Court filings are normally public, but the Justice Department said the emails from the accounts of nine White House staffers and an additional number of Agriculture Department officials should be kept under wraps in part because the public already has enough information through official statements about Sherrod’s forced resignation and the ensuing events.
In the July 13 motion (posted here), the Justice Department lawyers also invoke a deference to “Presidential confidentiality” as a basis for keeping the contents of the emails secret.
“The Office of the President occupies a ‘unique position in the constitutional scheme’ and ‘the public interest requires that a coequal branch of Government afford Presidential confidentiality the greatest protection consistent with the fair administration of justice,’” Glass and Goldberg wrote.
Sure seems like there is quite a bit to hide if you ask me. There are so many layers of scandal and corruption in the Obama administration it’s almost impossible to keep up. It’s times like this we remember how important Andrew Breitbart was. He was the kind of guy that refused to let liberals get away with their lies. #RIP
Obama promises to be transparent, ends up being the the least trustworthy president of all time.
His lies bounce off me like ping pong balls…

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