So Now Bush is Immune to the FOIA.

[skul_Donteecha]

So, now the Justice department says basically you can file FOIA requests til you are blue in the face....it does affect the White House. Does anything affect that gang of thieves? The Boys from the Gonzo Grill are battening down the hatches to keep even more stuff from congress and Pelosi and now Dodd still wont file impeachment papers.

I don't want to appear as a reincarnation of Chicken Little but by God, if this nation gets angrier as I see it getting, this time the sky will fall in the form of a revolt.

How can it be that our elected official sit on their whoopie cushions watch the Constitution get mangled and trashed and do nothing? Is this what we voted them into office to do? As I recall the results of the 2006 election were because we were unhappy with the way Bush and Gang were handling or not handling things and we wanted a change NOW!!! So, Its long past NOW. Its now Much Later and the Democrats still have not attacked. I for one don't want to Bush leave office like any other President. I want him ridden out of town on a rail.

How Long Oh Lord, How Long Must We Wait???????

[Kagemusha]

1. Actually the DoJ is claiming something really technical and relatively benign

If such claims were all the DoJ limited itself to, I'd rest easier.

The DoJ is arguing that just because you might have a valid FOIA claim on something in the missing 5 million e-mails doesn't mean that the internal documents about the plans to look at if those e-mails are recoverable are themselves subject to FOIA.

The reason this is hypertechnical is that the court has a valid interest in knowing what the hell is going on with that so, even if it is an exemption that is like a camel passing through the eye of a needle, even if the plaintiffs have no right to that document under FOIA, the judge does to ensure that FOIA is properly adhered to. And certainly Congress has an interest in seeing that administration e-mail is properly taken care of.

Compared to the claims that Myers and Rove don't have to respond to valid subpoenas, this is, in and of itself, not one bit any worse than anything you'd see under previous administrations (and I mean, besides Nixon's), including Democratic administrations. But everyone's so hypersensitive that even a restrained claim of FOIA exemption (not immunity. exemption) inspires howls of outrage because it is the straw on an overburdened camel's back. (Yes, that's two camel metaphors. So sue me.)