Bush Hits the Delete Button: Public information the administration doesn’t want you to see, by Paul Kiel, Utne Reader, March-April 2008.
Since 2006 … the investigative website TPMmuckraker.com [has] been keeping a running tally of the diminishing access to government information. Reporter Steve Benen got the list started over at his own blog, the Carpetbagger Report. Then his fellow Muckrakers joined in by trawling the news and–as is the website’s custom–tapping the collective wisdom of their readers to cobble together a dossier on an administration that has, as deputy editor Paul Kiel writes, “discontinued annual reports, classified normally public data, de-funded studies, quieted underlings, and generally done whatever was necessary to keep bad information under wraps.”
Here, Utne Reader presents an excerpted (but not redacted) version of the list Kiel continues to compile. [Bush Admin: What You Don’t Know Can’t Hurt Us, 2007 Version By Paul Kiel – November 23, 2007.]
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