Freedom Block

The Left wants to rotect those in power:

The FOIA guarantees to every citizen the right to see all federal government documents that are not subject to reasonable exemptions such as national security, commercial trade secrets, and law enforcement. This law is also the lifeblood of American journalism. Journalists have filed millions of FOIA requests over the years, with a result that thousands of critically important news stories that would not otherwise have been known are reported. These include stories from media across the political spectrum about every President since LBJ, such as the fact the FBI was secretly surveilling radical left-wing groups opposed to President Ronald Reagan, details about the water torture methods used during the George W. Bush administration, the legal justification cited in defense of President Barack Obama's use of drones to kill U.S. citizens connected to radical terrorist groups, and the fact DOJ officials lied to the surveillance court in order to obtain search warrants against individuals associated with President Donald Trump. But earlier this week, ProPublica (PP), a non-profit left-wing advocacy group that uses journalism to advance its values and perspectives published a thinly veiled case for denying the conservative Heritage Foundation's access to the FOIA. Here's the PP lead:

Three investigators for the Heritage Foundation have deluged federal agencies with thousands of Freedom of Information Act requests over the past year, requesting a wide range of information on government employees, including communications that could be seen as a political liability by conservatives. Among the documents they’ve sought are lists of agency personnel and messages sent by individual government workers that mention, among other things, "climate equity," "voting," or "SOGIE," an acronym for sexual orientation, gender identity and expression.

Read on and PP tells readers that what these Heritage investigators are up to is probing for evidence of federal workers whose political views indicate they would oppose policies and programs favored by Trump if he is elected to a second four-year term.

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