{"id":1841311,"date":"2023-02-09T13:49:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T18:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1841311"},"modified":"2023-02-09T13:56:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T18:56:21","slug":"if-bidens-federal-elections-takeover-is-free-and-fair-why-are-the-plans-completely-redacted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-bidens-federal-elections-takeover-is-free-and-fair-why-are-the-plans-completely-redacted\/","title":{"rendered":"If Biden\u2019s Federal Elections Takeover Is \u2018Free And Fair,\u2019 Why Are The Plans Completely Redacted?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fif-bidens-federal-elections-takeover-is-free-and-fair-why-are-the-plans-completely-redacted%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1841311&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>After several executive agencies in the Biden administration were sued for refusing to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests from conservative advocacy group Citizens United over the White House\u2019s attempt to federalize elections, the Department of the Interior\u2019s (DOI) Bureau of Indian Affairs finally turned over its first batch of requested documents. There\u2019s one problem: More than half of the 54-page document is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/624624768\/Interior-Dept-Voting-EO-FOIA-Production-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Completely redacted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden administration is the least transparent in history, and these absurd redactions are just the latest example. What are they trying to hide from the American people?\u201d The Federalist was informed by David Bossie, President of Citizens United. <\/p>\n<p>As The Federalist has previously stated <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/23\/yes-biden-is-hiding-his-plan-to-rig-the-2022-midterm-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>In March 2021, President Joe Biden issued this statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2021\/03\/07\/executive-order-on-promoting-access-to-voting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Executive order<\/a> It directed hundreds of federal agencies that they should participate in a federal takeover. It allowed federal agencies the ability to work with \u201cnonpartisan\u201d Third-party entities are used to register voters, but Demos is left-leaning dark money group. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.demos.org\/blog\/anniversary-bloody-sunday-look-president-bidens-voting-access-executive-order\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Publicly admitted<\/a> it\u2019s worked with federal agencies, \u201cin close partnership with the ACLU and other allies,\u201d to advance the aims of Biden\u2019s directive.<\/p>\n<p>This order raised alarm bells among Republicans as well as good government groups. It was reminiscent of the massive takeover of election offices in government by Democratic donors and activists in key swing states during 2020&#8217;s presidential election. Democrats were able conduct partisan get out-the-vote activities by infiltrating state and local offices. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/12\/the-2020-election-wasnt-stolen-it-was-bought-by-mark-zuckerberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">You can swing the election<\/a> in then-candidate Biden\u2019s favor. This order is a taxpayer-funded version of that effort, turning federal agencies \u2014 including those that dole out federal benefits \u2014 into voter registration hubs and partisan get-out-the-vote centers.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens United wanted more information about the matter, so it filed FOIA request with the DOI to get email and text messages. The requests included the Hatch Act and executive order, which prohibits employees of the executive branch from participating in electoral activities.\u00a0Citizens United filed FOIA requests with the DOI and State Department to find out more about them. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/20\/citizens-united-sues-biden-administration-over-election-takeover-documents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sued<\/a>. On Jan. 31, DOI sent its first round of documents per Citizens United\u2019s request. <\/p>\n<p>Citizens United received a 54-page PDF. It is not redacted except for logistical emails that were sent between White House staff members and heads of agency departments. The plan and implementation strategy for the \u201cPromoting Access to\u00a0Voting\u201d executive orders themselves are completely redacted. <\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration addressed a cover letter along with the documents to defend the redactions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/5\/552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S.C. \u00a7 552(b)(5)<\/a>, which allows agencies withhold information under the \u201cPresidential Communications Privilege\u201d (exists in order to ensure \u201cthe President\u2019s ability to obtain candid and informed opinions from his advisors and to make decisions confidentially\u201d) and the \u201cDeliberative Process Privilege\u201d (\u201cprotects the decision-making process of government agencies and encourages the frank exchange of ideas on legal or policy matters\u201d). <\/p>\n<p>But according to Jason Foster, president and founder of Empower Oversight, a transparency and government accountability group that frequently files FOIA requests, these redactions are a prime example of the federal government\u2019s blatant over-redacting and censorship. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFederal bureaucrats do everything in their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite finally fulfilling a FOIA request, Biden&#8217;s Department of the Interior sent Citizens United a heavily-redacted document.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1130,"featured_media":1841314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[3706,9588,6571,9595,3974,4089,3641,9758,7018],"class_list":["post-1841311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-bidens","tag-completely","tag-elections","tag-fair","tag-federal","tag-free","tag-plans","tag-redacted","tag-takeover"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1841314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}