Federal judges rarely drop the hammer angrily on a federal agency. But it’s happening quite a bit to President Obama’s administration, especially in cases involving government transparency.

The State Department and Environmental Protection Agency are just two agencies that have flouted the Freedom of Information Act. Last March, Judge Royce Lamberth accused the EPA of “utter indifference” or even “lying” about its FOIA obligations in a case where the agency had stonewalled the release of documents until the 2012 election had passed.