Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Change on the horizon

Change on the horizon? --- 

“Trump could demand federal agencies release records to the public,  – something career government officials handling the lawsuits and FOIA requests don’t want, according to transparency experts from nonprofit watchdog groups.

“On any issue … the Trump administration could really … open the window on what’s going on there on all those issues,”

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton told The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group (TheDCNF).”…http://bit.ly/2nhrbrc

Judicial Watch is the nation’s preeminent watchdog group and has filed over 3,000 FOIA requests with the Obama administration. The nonpartisan group has filed nearly 225 FOIA lawsuits against the Obama administration, leading to major revelations in the Benghazi, IRS, and Clinton financial scandals.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/tom-oversight


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High School Rapists Entered U.S. as Unaccompanied Alien Children, Lived in Sanctuary County ---

The teenage illegal immigrants charged with raping a 14-year-old girl in the bathroom of a Maryland public high school last week entered the United States under an Obama program that’s accommodated tens of thousands of Central American youths who crossed the Mexican border. The administration coined them Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) and portrayed them as innocent, desperate kids fleeing violence and famine in their homeland. Most are from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala and the influx has overwhelmed border agents, government health agencies and military bases that serve as shelters not to mention public schools nationwide.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2017/03/high-school-rapists-entered-u-s-unaccompanied-alien-children-lived-sanctuary-county



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Cover up Of Increasing Student Loan Failures ---

Judicial Watch Sues Education Department over Cover up Of Increasing Student Loan Failures MARCH 20, 2017 Email Print Text Size (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced that it today filed a Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S. Department of Education seeking records relating to then Obama administration’s “coding error” that resulted in masking that most borrowers are failing to pay down their federally-subsidized student loans (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Education (No. 1:17-cv-00501)). The Obama administration’s Obamacare legislation also included provisions that resulted in the federal takeover of the student loan industry, which radically increased taxpayer subsidies of higher education loans. The Education Department acknowledged in early January that the coding error resulted in wildly inaccurate College Scorecard repayment rates. The significance is substantial, according to The Wall Street Journal: The department played down the mistake, but the new average three-year repayment rate has declined by 20 percentage points to 46%. 

This is huge. 

It means that fewer than half of undergraduate borrowers at the average college are paying down their debt.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-sues-education-department-cover-increasing-student-loan-failures/


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