Groups warn of growing U.S. government secrecy

Tuesday 09th September, 02:51 PM JST

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SuperLib at 09:17 PM JST - 9th September

http://www.openthegovernment.org/otg/SecrecyReportCard08.pdf

Above is a link to the report card. I can't seem to find anything wrong with the report at all. ;)
chibaman at 10:42 PM JST - 9th September

Why is this 'headline news' on a website about Japan? Surely this reference to other countries is not relevant. But you've got me clicking the mouse and that is relevant to some people isn't it.
Nessie at 11:15 PM JST - 9th September

What presidents and VPs say in private to one another ain't gonna come out unless they want it to. And that's the way it should be.

So you're a statist and not a conservative, then, I take it.
Madverts at 11:27 PM JST - 9th September

"So you're a statist and not a conservative, then, I take it."

Sounds more like a communist to me...
KitsuneYoukai at 12:31 AM JST - 10th September

We've given them those rights under law and the Constitution of the US so as long as they do their job in protecting the interests of this American nation, go ahead and keep it classified.
KitsuneYoukai at 12:32 AM JST - 10th September

Madverts/Nessie...NO! China is communist; big difference.
Madverts at 12:35 AM JST - 10th September

"China is communist; big difference."

I see no major difference from people who believe their leaders should be irreprochable. But then again, we're talking about one of JT's most ardent Bush supporters...
Nessie at 12:48 AM JST - 10th September

We've given them those rights under law and the Constitution of the US so as long as they do their job in protecting the interests of this American nation, go ahead and keep it classified.

Kitsune, read it without moving your lips this time:

Without citing any law passed by Congress, federal agencies are restricting access to many unclassified documents by marking them “sensitive.” President George W Bush gave the practice his imprimatur in May. There is a move in Congress to rein in what the administration is doing.
Xennon at 01:06 AM JST - 10th September

Meh. Don't worry about it Nessie and Madverts.

You think the conservatives will be swayed in the least by what you say? Their guy is in control now. They could care less if their freedoms are being taken from them from beneath their feet.
adaydream at 01:14 AM JST - 10th September

Am I surprised that this administration has hid facts after facts to hide their efforts to screw the Americans and fill their pockets with treasures.

dick cheney's secret benergy meetings were the first of the Great American Screwing.

And this administration has continued the process to hide their efforts to enrich the rich and continue to screw the little guys. < :-)
OgieDoggie at 01:25 AM JST - 10th September

Another new law creates the Office of Government Information Services at the National Archives to mediate conflicts between the public’s requests for information and agencies’ refusals to release it.

Well that will fix it, add in another Govt Agency to MEDIATE...another level of Bureaucracy that'll really help..NOT!
888naff at 01:36 AM JST - 10th September

"Why is this 'headline news' on a website about Japan? "

sometimes they forget and think they are working at usa today. inclu "world" news story about the recent abc interview with some us vice pres wanna be.... Japan today.. yeah right. learn to integrate.
Nessie at 01:53 AM JST - 10th September

Well that will fix it, add in another Govt Agency to MEDIATE...another level of Bureaucracy that'll really help..NOT!

Yeah, it would be so much simpler if it were a monarchy, Ogie.
WhiteHawk at 03:43 AM JST - 10th September

Alinsky4prez:

Barack's past is an open book, except for the stuff he has to keep from the haters, and the swift-boaters.

Did you mean for that to be funny?
SezWho2 at 09:56 AM JST - 10th September

888naff,

Actually, this is headline news in the world news section of a website about Japan.

Perhaps you think it would be much better if we could keep secret--or otherwise prevent people from hearing and talking about--the fact of increasing US government secrecy. And of course, you might also not want this news to get out to budding democracies whose people hope to emulate a great open society and who have finally managed to wean themselves away from systems where information is controlled by the state.

It seems a bit odd that a democratically elected government increasingly claims the right to know what its citizens are doing while decreasing the ability of its citizens to know what it is doing.