Then again, I read about things like this where it does seem like things are getting changed for the better.
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A month after the 9/11 attacks, a directive from then-Attorney General John Ashcroft urged agencies to carefully consider all possible grounds for withholding information before making disclosures, and promised the Justice Department's backing for any decision to withhold with a plausible legal basis. On Thursday, new Attorney General Eric Holder reversed that order, instructing executive branch officials that "an agency should not withhold information simply because it may do so legally." The new guidelines could potentially affect a slew of pending cases concerning secretive copyright treaties, warrantless wiretapping, and military interrogation practices.
The new FOIA guidelines are meant to implement the executive order issued by President Obama on his first full day in office, enjoining officials to adopt a presumption of transparency. "In the face of doubt," that order insisted, "openness prevails."
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...data-flood.ars
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