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- From: "tom betz" <tom.betz@execnet.com>
- Newsgroups: misc.headlines
- Subject: censored: foia is an oxymoron
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.1290.8597@execnet>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 16:56:37 EST
- Reply-To: "tom betz" <tom.betz@execnet.com>
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- Organization: Executive Networks Information
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- Subject: CENSORED: FOIA IS AN OXYMORON
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- Quoth Rich Winkel regarding CENSORED: FOIA IS AN OXYM on 11-06-92:
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- RW>FOIA IS AN OXYMORON
- RW>
- RW>In theory at least, the 25 year old Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
- RW>bucks the bureaucratic impulse for secrecy. In reality, however, the
- RW>executive branch and federal courts are stretching the law's
- RW>exemptions to give that impulse freer rein. As a result, this precious
- RW>piece of legislation is fading into obsolescence.
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- Hey, now that Clinton's going into the White House, the press should be
- able to have a field day with FOIA requests for records from the last 12
- years!
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- At least, the records that the Feds don't shred between now and January...
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