Various politicians and pundits have already weighed in on whether or not the White House should release photographs and video footage of the raid that recently ended in Osama bin Laden’s death, and, now, the Associated Press is adding its own two cents.

Following an earlier FOIA request to see the footage in question, AP senior managing editor Michael Oreskes told The Atlantic Wire that they’d like to be the judge of what constitutes as worthy of sharing with the public:

It was a big day in court for CNBC’s business news competitors – both FBN and Bloomberg won Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits against the Federal Reserve.

And they did it right next to each other in the same courthouse.

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?

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Notoriously secretive former VP Dick Cheney may find his face all over the cable networks all over again, thanks to a recent ruling by federal judge Emmet Sullivan, . Deciding in favor of watchdog group, the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, that records including FBI reports, notes, and interviews with Cheney associated with the investigation of the Valerie Plame leak will have to be made public under the Freedom of Information Act.