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Tone early with barbed questions about the department alleged stonewalling of "associated press" foia request for government document. >> is a.p. on the menmy's list? i'll take it as a no unless you want to answer. >> they defended department and witnesses against the republican onslaught. >> i want to give you a chance to answer the question. tried to but you weren't permitted to. you stated that delays do not meet your high standards. >> they were not, sir. that was confirmed by the inspector general report. >> dhs witnesses described an agency besieged with a backlog of 74,000 foia requests...

Requests. >> since 2009, the department of homeland security failed to comply with the foia deadlines in 100% of requests filed by epic. >> under further questioning, john verdi criticized vhs demand that the foia request identify themselves by name, location and party affiliation. >> i do not believe it to be lawful. >> despite the harsh criticism, chairman issa pointed out what he had seen as d.h.s.'s flaw in overly politicized policies in tooia request have been rescinded and they are operating in the statutory boundaries and promise more government transparency hearings to come. >> chris: ...

>> reporter: the question, was this a conflict of interest? meanwhile, comey continues to come under fire from democrats and some republicans for releasing investigation details so close to election day. on friday, the fbi released documents related to a 15-year-old investigation of mark rich, a friend of bill clinton, pardoned by the former president when he left office. the fbi insists the documents were released automatically to comply with the foia request. so was this e-mail from the doj to to tepodesta a conflict of interest? note this, kadzic used personal e-mail to communicate with som...

Hopefully with a special prosecutor, the american people aren't going to believe for a moment that in fact nobody's at fault here. this was just an accident, some rogue people in cincinnati as lois lerner and the president would have you belief. bill: more of this a michael moore, staffry writer, "weekly standard." how are you? >> good morning, bill. bill: you say there is an event this week that could move this forward. what is that, michael? >> possibly. the. and not on the political side or happening on congress but on the court side. the irs legal steam is scheduled to appear before two fe...

The irs, the doj, the nsa, an now the v.a. we're running out of letters. >> if only we could develop a new alphabet to add more scandal tos the roster because that's the only thing that this administration seems to do really, really well. call for an investigation, then sit on the documents, then you have to get an outside nonprofit agency to submit a foia request only to get thousands and thousands of pages of redacted and blacked out. the most quote transparent administration has turned up out to be the cement block administration. >> bob, they're looking at 26 facilities. this isn't going t...