Newspaper’s FOIA Request Yields Pages Of Blacked-Out Documents

When President Obama took office, he earned widespread praise for loosening up Bush-era restrictions on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which outlines the process by which citizens can request previously unreleased information from federal agencies. When one Seattle business weekly took the FOIA for a spin in an investigation of the financial crisis, it uncovered … pages and pages of black ink. Is this Obama’s fault, somehow?