RSSMixed bag for agencies on FOIA
From: The Washington Times | March 15, 2010
President Obama is having difficulty getting all federal agencies to follow his order to deliver "a new era of open government," according to a study of how they administer the Freedom of Information Act. The National Security Archive, a private group that publishes declassified government information and uses the act and lawsuits to pry out official records, found a decidedly mixed record in an audit of how 90 agencies responded to Obama directives to open more records, and the guidelines and training sessions that followed from the Justice Department. Rescinding a Bush policy of defending any legal reason to withhold ...
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