Transparency: The Tale of the Tape
Now that the Administration has served for more than a year, we are starting to see real progress on the openness and transparency front. For the most part, we have gotten high marks in this area, but we take exception to the views expressed in a Washington Post story today.
The Post acknowledges that, in his [...]
Gov’t plans closed meeting on openness
A government workshop on openness being held tomorrow is closed to the public. Officials say the event for federal employees is meant to provide tips for Freedom of Information Act liaisons on communicating and negotiating with people who make requests.
Bookmarks
When In Doubt, Delete
One of the hacked East Anglia emails that has gotten considerable play on the web indicates that several alarmist scientists deleted emails that were subject to a Freedom of Information Act request rather than produce them. That’s true; here is the context.
On May 27, 2008, David Palmer, who is in charge of “data protection” [...]
Musicians Participate In Guantanamo Torture?
Filed under: Icky Icky Poo > Britney Spears > Politik > Barack Obama They had no idea and they are pissed!!! Famed musicians, such as R.E.M. and Pearl Jam have filed a series of Freedom of Information requests, asking the government to declassify documents that would reveal which artist’s catalogs were used in several prisons [...]
UK Bed shortage forces 4,000 mothers to give birth in hospital corridors, lifts, offices and hospital toilets’
Here’s a glimpse of what we could have in store for us if we allow Obamacare to be passed.
Via MailOnline:
Thousands of women are having to give birth outside maternity wards because of a lack of midwives and hospital beds.
The lives of mothers and babies are being put at risk as births in locations ranging from [...]
Taking the Dissident Database Seriously
We and many others have ridiculed the Obama administration’s heavy-handed effort to gather information on the “fishy” opponents of its government medicine proposal. Byron York, meanwhile, takes a serious look at the legal implications of the administration’s data-gathering program:
In a letter to Obama Tuesday, Republican Sen. John Cornyn wrote that, given Phillips’ request, “it [...]
