Agreed
http://www.mlive.com/news/us-world/index.ssf/2017/03/obama_administration_spent_rec.html
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration in its final year in office spent a record $36.2 million on legal costs defending its refusal to turn over federal records under the Freedom of Information Act, according to an Associated Press analysis of new U.S. data that also showed poor performance in other categories measuring transparency in government.
AP reports that for the second year in a row, the Obama administration also set a record for the number of times federal employees told those seeking information under FOIA requests that ?despite searching they couldn?t find a single page of files that were requested.? In addition, the administration set records for ?outright denying access to files and refusing to quickly consider requests described as especially newsworthy.?
The figures reflect the final struggles of the Obama administration during the 2016 election to meet President Barack Obama's pledge that it was "the most transparent administration in history," despite wide recognition of serious problems coping with requests under the information law.
