We don’t need no stinking transparency
Congress members routinely herald the Freedom of Information Act as a pry bar for the press and public to lift the lid on secretive government operations, sometimes exposing fraud and always buttressing the spirit of transparency.
That agent of access, however, is stopped at the doors of Congress — which exempted itself from the very law it passed 41 years ago to keep the executive branch in check.
As federal agencies labor to respond to thousands of requests for documents each year, Congress returns none.
