The U.S. Navy took transparency to unexpected heights when it inadvertently sent a memo to a NBC reporter describing how it planned to put off requests the reporter had filed under the Freedom of Information Act. (Politico, January 7, 2014, by Dylan Byers)
Commenting on the memo, Joel Gehrke, of the Washington Examiner, January 7, 2014, wrote in an opinion column, “Looking for excuses to deny FOIA requests? Maybe the Navy public affairs office should revisit Obama’s directive that ‘the Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.'”