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Step 9 Department of Interior make access to ongoing litigation easy and transparent for taxpayers

Transparency has long been a mandate for the executive branch of government.

  • Government should be transparent. Transparency promotes accountability and provides information for citizens about what their Government is doing. Information maintained by the Federal Government is a national asset. My Administration will take appropriate action,  consistent with law and policy, to disclose information rapidly in forms that the public can readily find and use. Executive departments and agencies should harness new technologies to put information about their operations and decisions online and readily available to the public.  Executive departments and agencies should also solicit public feedback to identify information of greatest use to the public.  Barak Obama 21 Jan 2009
  • In the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government, issued on January 21, 2009, the President instructed the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to issue an Open Government Directive. Responding to that instruction, this memorandum is intended to direct executive departments and agencies to take specific actions to implement the principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration set forth in the President’s Memorandum. This Directive was informed by recommendations from the Federal Chief Technology Officer, who solicited public comment through the White House Open Government Initiative.

Proposed Directive

 

The Bureau of Land Management is directed to initiate Open Disclosure of Litigation.  The Department of Interior (DOI) shall prominently display and provide open access to any and all litigation activities settlements into which the DIO or its agencies entered, and any attorney’s fees paid for ending litigation. None of the funds made available in this act, in this, past and future fiscal years may be reprogrammed without the advance approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations in accordance with the with the reprogramming procedures contained in the report accompanying this Act.

 

ALLOWING THE MISINFORMATION TO BE UNCHALLENGED ENABLES THE CRUELTY AND MISMANAGEMENT.

  • Challenging the misinformation puts the burden of proof on the Bureau of Land Management to prove ‘the negative argument’ that they do not need to be transparent and be allowed to hide the evidence that there are valid and ongoing objections to their management practices.  That proof will be very difficult in light of the recent science on the origin of the animals and the removal of the ‘Chevron deference’. The courts are no longer required to accept garbage propaganda from the agency as fact.  

 

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Step 9 Department of Interior make access to ongoing litigation easy and transparent for taxpayers

Transparency has long been a mandate for the executive branch of government.

  • Government should be transparent. Transparency promotes accountability and provides information for citizens about what their Government is doing. Information maintained by the Federal Government is a national asset. My Administration will take appropriate action,  consistent with law and policy, to disclose information rapidly in forms that the public can readily find and use. Executive departments and agencies should harness new technologies to put information about their operations and decisions online and readily available to the public.  Executive departments and agencies should also solicit public feedback to identify information of greatest use to the public.  Barak Obama 21 Jan 2009
  • In the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government, issued on January 21, 2009, the President instructed the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to issue an Open Government Directive. Responding to that instruction, this memorandum is intended to direct executive departments and agencies to take specific actions to implement the principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration set forth in the President’s Memorandum. This Directive was informed by recommendations from the Federal Chief Technology Officer, who solicited public comment through the White House Open Government Initiative.

Proposed Directive

 

The Bureau of Land Management is directed to initiate Open Disclosure of Litigation.  The Department of Interior (DOI) shall prominently display and provide open access to any and all litigation activities settlements into which the DIO or its agencies entered, and any attorney’s fees paid for ending litigation. None of the funds made available in this act, in this, past and future fiscal years may be reprogrammed without the advance approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations in accordance with the with the reprogramming procedures contained in the report accompanying this Act.

 

ALLOWING THE MISINFORMATION TO BE UNCHALLENGED ENABLES THE CRUELTY AND MISMANAGEMENT.

  • Challenging the misinformation puts the burden of proof on the Bureau of Land Management to prove ‘the negative argument’ that they do not need to be transparent and be allowed to hide the evidence that there are valid and ongoing objections to their management practices.  That proof will be very difficult in light of the recent science on the origin of the animals and the removal of the ‘Chevron deference’. The courts are no longer required to accept garbage propaganda from the agency as fact.  

 

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