New Report and Resources on Gov’t Docs. Disappearing From Public Access

From U.S. News, an extensive investigative report on How the public’s business gets done out of the public eye:

  • “For the past three years, the Bush administration has quietly but efficiently dropped a shroud of secrecy across many critical operations of the federal government–cloaking its own affairs from scrutiny and removing from the public domain important information on health, safety, and environmental matters.”
  • See also this related December 12 report from pbs.org and NOW with Bill Moyers: Veil of Secrecy – Is Freedom of Information Becoming a Thing of the Past?
  • Posted in: E-Government, Freedom of Information, Government Documents