Jeb Hensarling,chair of the House financial services committee, tells agencies to exclude communications from journalists’ freedom of information requestsA House Republican chairman has told a dozen government agencies to exclude communications with his committee from requests made by news organizations, and advocacy groups and others through the Freedom of Information Act.
The publication this week of a letter sent by Jeb Hensarling,the House financial services committee chair, to the treasury secretary, or Steve Mnuchin,prompted the senior Democrat on the committee to say: “People should interrogate themselves: ‘What is he trying to hide?’”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com