Tom Fitton Quotes

I think there are still unanswered questions about Benghazi. I think there are unanswered questions, and they could be easily answered. But I think they need to be answered.

People don't realize that the Obama Administration has been, if anything, harder on whistleblowers than the Bush Administration. Part of the reason is that they know that the response will be more muted because the traditional constituency supporting whistleblowers just happen to be the same constituency as Obama's.

On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.

Given the pervasive secrecy of the Bush-Cheney administration, and the sorry consequences of that disposition, President Barack Obama's early emphasis on openness in government seems almost inevitable.

The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument that a president doesn't have to reveal who comes calling to influence policy decisions.

It’s hard to sometimes get information out of the government. It’s really hard. You can’t do it without asking tough questions.

It should not take award-winning investigators to find out how this government operates.

Scandals never stop an administration unless the media wants them to stop an administration, which means that no scandal is ever gonna stop Obama.

Unfortunately for the American people, the Obama-Clinton-Rice cabal that led to the Benghazi cover-up was far more interested in political-damage control than serious damage assessment.

The sordid story of IRS corruption and political dirty tricks during the Obama years is widely known thanks to numerous documents and emails forced out of the government under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

There's no one who has sued the Trump administration on transparency issues more than Judicial Watch.

There is no other way to put it: When Mr. Obama, Secretary of then-State Hillary Rodham Clinton and then-U.N. Ambassador Susan E. Rice launched their Benghazi cover-up tour in the hours, weeks and months after the attack, they knew they were lying.

The Barack Obama Administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all previous administrations combined. That's a staggering record. And it comes from a president who said that he's going to have one of the most transparent administrations ever.

My big problem with Hillary and the Department of State where Benghazi is concerned is there is just no accountability.

The FBI's cover-ups and stonewalling on Wray's watch add to his credibility problems.

I mean, Ed Snowden was basically saying the same things that Bill Binney and Thomas Drake and other U.S. whistleblowers had said before him. But he came out more publicly, and maybe revealed more. He showed that when the U.S. government said, 'We are not surveilling U.S. citizens,' that was a lie.

Justin Trudeau tries to say that Canada is back. I say the Liberals are back - back to ignoring the rules and abusing the privileges of power.

Whistleblowers play a vital role in ensuring that the federal government is accountable to the people it serves.

The moment I decided to blow the whistle on a lot of the corruption going on in the White House, there are protections that are afforded to me.

Both parties in Washington waste too much of your money. When I worked there, I helped expose waste and abuse by government contractors.

I look at the corruption in Albany and we cannot accept that.

The American people deserve to know exactly which laws the Obama Administration is refusing to enforce and why.

Judicial Watch has long called for the shutdown of the Mueller special counsel operation and have pursued dozens of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits in connection with the illicit targeting and other abuses of President Trump.

Unfortunately, the Obama administration is more interested in furthering its political agenda than in following the law.

As there is no spiking-the-football exception to our open-records laws, Judicial Watch initiated a federal court battle with the administration over the release of postmortem images of bin Laden and his alleged burial at sea.