By WFI Staff
The double-standard shown by the U.S. (Big) Labor Department is so absurd, it’s humorous. While bureaucrats from Obama’s Labor Department to the the President’s National Labor Relations Board are pushing rule changes and decisions to force employers to hand over the personal contact information of their workers, the Labor Department doesn’t want The Associated Press to have access to the private email addresses of Obama appointees.
Really? Isn’t that what “public” information is all about? But, it gets better, with the Labor Department reportedly telling the AP that it would have to pay over $1 million for the information. Reports Jack Gillum:
“The Labor Department initially asked the AP to pay just over $1.03 million when the AP asked for email addresses of political appointees there. It said it needed pull 2,236 computer backup tapes from its archives and pay 50 people to pore over old records. Those costs included three weeks to identify tapes and ship them to a vendor, and pay each person $2,500 for nearly a month’s work. But under the department’s own FOIA rules — which it cited in its letter to the AP — it is prohibited from charging news organizations any costs except for photocopies after the first 100 pages.”
You have to wonder what Obama’s Labor Department has to hide…
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