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Speaker 1: Well, Obama's most transparent government in history. Well, that didn't

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Speaker 1: live up to its promise, Washington Times now can report,

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Speaker 1: in its final year in office, the Obama administration spent

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Speaker 1: a record thirty six point two million dollars on legal

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Speaker 1: costs defending its refusal to turn over federal records under

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Speaker 1: the Freedom of Information Act, According to an AP analysis

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Speaker 1: of new US data that also showed poor performance and

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Speaker 1: other categories that measure transparency in government, Obama's administration set

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Speaker 1: records for outright denial of access to files, refusing to

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Speaker 1: quickly consider requests described as especially newsworthy, and they forced

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Speaker 1: people to pay for records who had asked the government

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Speaker 1: to waive search and copy fees. By the way, where's

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Speaker 1: the press talking about journalism now? Could you imagine if

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Speaker 1: Trump does this