- In a year of intense public interest over the NSA's surveillance programs, the government cited national security to withhold information a record 8,496 times — a 57 percent increase over a year earlier and more than double Obama's first year, when it cited that reason 3,658 times. http://bigstory.ap.org/article/us-cites-security-more-censor-deny-records 7 comments politics
Linking pages
- DC thinks it can silence a new Snowden, but the anti-leak hypocrisy is backfiring | Trevor Timm | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/26/new-snowden-obama-administration-anti-leak-guidelines 28 comments
- Why We Need More Access to Bureaucrats' Emails, Not Less https://reason.com/blog/2016/09/07/why-we-need-more-access-to-bureaucrats-e 5 comments