What Is Obama’s Top Population-Control Freak Hiding?

Townhall reports on CEI's Freedom of Information Act request. 

President Obama's top climate change adviser is defending his hide-and-seek game in federal court. Earlier this month, the Washington, D.C.-based Competitive Enterprise Institute appealed a D.C. district court ruling protecting Holdren's personal email communications from Freedom of Information Act requests.

CEI argues that federal transparency law "applies to the work-related records of agency employees regardless of where they are stored. Many agencies routinely instruct their staff to preserve any such documents that they might have on their personal email accounts." Yet, as head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Holdren has placed himself above the law and spirit of transparency that Obama fraudulently vowed to uphold.

"It makes little sense to claim that an agency is not 'withholding' documents when it refuses to produce documents held by its own chief executive that relate to 'agency business,'" CEI's legal brief rightly argues. "Even if OSTP had demonstrated that these emails were not within its actual control — which it did not — its failure to search its director's personal account would still violate FOIA because any agency records in that account fall within the agency's 'constructive control.'"

Read the full article at Townhall.