Obama implies that the White House doesn't have to play by the rules.

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Remember FILEGATE? FBI files on some Republican luminaries turned up in the Clinton White House. Well, seems that one of those Republicans took exception and sued back in 1996. The case has remained alive and seems now Obama wants to put an end to it. Last year, federal Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that the Executive Office of the President (EOP) is covered under the Privacy Act. In that decision, Lamberth tartly added that “...this court holds that under the Privacy Act, the word ‘agency’ includes the Executive Office of the President, just as the Privacy Act says.” So this year, the Obama White House comes back in the same case and asks Lamberth to grant a motion for summary dismissal, arguing that “the White House is not an agency under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and it necessarily follows that it is not an agency subject to the Privacy Act.” Amazing, but true. This exchange is the latest installment in one of the longest-running courtroom dramas from the Clinton administration,Alexander v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, aka "Filegate." Remember that one, when 400 FBI highly sensitive background investigative files on Republican luminaries mysteriously turned up in the Clinton White House. Just "a bureaucratic miscue," explained President Bill Clinton at the time Interesting enough, but it gets better. Former President Bill Clinton now says that the files shouldn't have been handled the way they were and should have never wound up at the White House. Judicial Watch head chairman Tom Fitton explains the stakes: Judicial Watch head Tom Fitton explains the stakes in this long-running judicial clash: "What the Obama administration is effectively saying here is that if the White House decides to illegally compile FBI files and violate your privacy rights, tough luck. It is disturbing that the Obama administration has taken the legal position that the Privacy Act does not apply to the White House and the Clinton FBI files scandal was not a scandal. "It is worrying to those of us concerned about the Obama White House's collecting 'fishy' emails and compiling an enemies list of new organizations, radio hosts, businesses, and industry associations to attack and smear. Is the Obama defense of the FBI files scandal less about that Clinton scandal and more about what his White House is up to now?" Fitton asked. TRANSPARENCY is most likely the one word that got Pres. Obama elected. Seems to me he needs to look it up in the dictionary. Here's the full article: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Which-part-of-judges-decision-does-Obama-White-House-not-understand-67345222.html