The Karl Rove-linked conservative advocacy group Crossroads GPS has filed a lawsuit against the Obama Administration over information about waivers the Department of Health and Human Services granted from the health care reform law.
Crossroads GPS is a non-profit political cash machine, founded by Rove and former RNC chair Ed Gillespie last year. It is not required to release the names of its donors.
In a statement today, Crossroads claims that the HHS refused to comply with the Freedom of Information Act when Crossroads requested “any and all memoranda, guidance, directives, instructions and other documents … relating to the criteria to be applied by HHS in deciding whether to grant or deny applications for waiver of the annual limit requirements” ordered by the health care law.
Steven Law, president of Crossroads GPS, said in the statement:
The Obamacare waiver program has all the same flaws as the underlying law: unfettered government power, federal bureaucrats picking winners and losers, and the appearance, if not the reality, of favoritism to political cronies. Until President Obama is willing to grant the entire country a waiver from Obamacare, his Administration needs to come clean on how they decide who wins and losers in the waiver lottery.
Crossroads GPS also launched a crowd-sourcing FOIA site today, called Wikicountability.org, to “facilitate efficient sharing of public information about the Obama Administration, as well as spotlight violations of FOIA by the Obama Administration.”
