Secrecy Cloaked During Election Campaign

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Secrecy Cloaked During Election Campaign

Published Wednesday, November 10th, 2004
Americas - 16:00 GMT


William Fisher

“It’s always a fight to find out what the government doesn’t want us to know. It’s a fight we’re once again losing … (President Bush) has clamped a lid on public access … It’s not just historians and journalists he wants locked out; it’s Congress … and it’s you, the public, and your representatives.”

These are the words of Bill Moyers, one of the U.S.’ most respected broadcast journalists. Moyers was press secretary to President Lyndon B Johnson when Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in 1966. That law established the principle that the public should have broad access to government records.

In his ‘NOW’ programme on U.S. public television, Moyers condemns the Bush administration’s penchant for secrecy. “We’re told it’s all about national security, but that’s not so,” he says.

Government secrecy, never discussed during the just-concluded presidential campaign, is likely to move back to the front burner when the ‘lame duck’ Congress continues the deliberations it failed to complete before the Nov. 2 election.

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1. Someone always knows something.

The problem is finding a news medium that can print it without having to face liability.

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2. FASCIST FUCK! and half of US helped this idiocy,AGAIN. eom