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Obama Shut Down Judicial Watch By Overcharging on Records Requests, Stripping Them of ‘Media’ Status

Hank Berrien

Remember President Obama’s promise that open records requests using the Freedom of Information Act would be honored, arguing that his administration would be transparent?

On Thursday, the General Services Administration inspector general, Carol F. Ochoa, stated that members of the Obama administration nastily targeted the conservative legal group Judicial Watch, stripping it of its “media” status and attempting to make the organization pay higher fees for its open records requests, according to The Washington Times.

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