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• Illinois gets its chief FOIA enforcer

  
  Open Records — Authority: 111
  Lisa Madigan, attorney general in Illinois, has chosen someone on her staff to be the state’s Top Sunshine Cop .
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• Chennai International Fashion Week offers a good platform for budding designers

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Chennai, Dec.19 (ANI): The ongoing Chennai International Fashion Week (CIFW) has offered a good platform for budding fashion designers and models.CIFW has been organised to showcase and market the Designers’ collections to the global fashion fraternity.This fashion week also aims at showcasing India as an important ...
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• Redaction Run Amok!

  
  The FOI Advocate — Authority: 129
  The Puget Sound Business Journal has been seeking internal communications between Washington Mutual (WaMu) and federal regulators, including the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC).Of interest are internal emails, which the news organization hopes will help explain why ...
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• Newly-released documents show flaws in domestic intelligence collection and oversight

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 437
  Newly-released documents show flaws in domestic intelligence collection and oversight : Via CDT - Center for Democracy & Technology . Last Wednesday several U.S. intelligence agencies released previously classified documents in response to FOIA litigation from EFF & ACLU. Among these was a document ...
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• FOIA gets new set of teeth on Jan. 1

  
  Woodstock Advocate — Authority: 141
  The public gains additional power in securing information through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests on January 1, 2010. For the past several years there has been a Public Access Counselor (PAC) in the Office of the Illinois Attorney General, but the Counselor could be viewed as temporary; i.e., the Counselor ...
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• Im Conducting a FOIA Training Teleconference in January

  
  The FOIA blog — Authority: 124
  Ill be conducting a FOIA Training teleconference on January 22, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. eastern standard time.  Its a ninety minute overview of the FOIA. Details can be found here .  Please note:  I am only the speaker, I have nothing to do with the registration process.
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• Lawsuit Challenging Unconstitutional Spying Should Be Reinstated, Says ACLU

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 437
  Lawsuit Challenging Unconstitutional Spying Should Be Reinstated, Says ACLU : Via American Civil Liberties Union . FISA Amendments Act Must Be Subject To Judicial Review FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union filed a brief late Wednesday ...
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• Mug Shots Ruled Withholdable

  
  The FOIA blog — Authority: 124
  A federal district court in the Southern District of Florida has ruled that a mug shot taken by the U.S. Marshals Service can be withheld under the FOIA according to the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press. The Sixth Circuit has ruled that mug shots must be released pursuant to the FOIA but no other ...
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• A Secret but All-Knowing Government: The Government that knows everything about us makes sure we know nothing about it; and that is why Barack Obama’s citizenship is such a sinister issue: the government that lives by its secrets will probably die by its

  
  TIERRA LIMPIA by Charles Lincoln — Authority: 125
  http://www.voteronpaul.com/newsDetail.php?A-Secret-Government-2881A Secret Government by Sibel EdmondsBoiling FrogsTue, Dec 15th, 2009 12:00:00 amSource:  Boiling FrogsThe liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. — Patrick HenryAs ...
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• Intelligence Agencies Release Docs Describing Misconduct in Response to EFF Lawsuit

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 437
  Intelligence Agencies Release Docs Describing Misconduct in Response to EFF Lawsuit : Via EFF.org Updates . Today the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Security Agency released 162 pages of intelligence oversight reporting ...
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• Government Injunction Against the Media

  
  Vexed Bermoothes — Authority: 418
  The PLP and the Bermuda Government like to talk about their commitment to transparency and freedom of the press.  But their actions undercut their claims. Bermudians woke up today (with the gunshots still ringing in their ears) to a daily newspaper that was also shot full of holes.  It appears that the Royal ...
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• Media Files Amicus Brief for Bloomberg in Fed Appeal

  
  The FOIA blog — Authority: 124
  A number of for profit news-media organizations have filed an amicus brief in support of Bloomberg in the appeal brought by the U.S. Federal Reserve in the Second Circuit.  The Fed is attempting to overturn a district court order that says it must be transparent and release information on loans the Fed made to ...
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• What You Don’t Know Won’t Hurt You

  
  Tom Collins' World Wide Web Log — Authority: 111
  Shortly after eleven this morning, Gretchen put through a call from a fellow named Galbraith who said he works for the National Archives. Tom: Hello, this is Tom Collins.  How may I help you? Galbraith: Mr. Collins, I’m afraid we’re in a bit of pickle down here at the Archives, and I was wondering if perhaps I ...
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• Sen. Jim Bunning Releases 70 Responses By Bernanke As More Organizations Come In Support Of Pittman Crusade

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 741
  Bunning Q&A summary: more Mutual Assured Destruction, more of the same Racketeering that we have all grown to love and respect from the Federal Reserve, more obfuscations, more Colonel Jessup bullshit (aka "You cant handle the truth"). With Bernankes reconfirmation vote coming on Thursday, all Senators should read ...
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• 22 million missing bush white house emails found

  
  media monarchy — Authority: 132
  from allgov: Six years after the problem was first discovered, computer experts have located 22 million emails that became lost during the Bush administration. The discovery followed lawsuits filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and the National Security Archive, which demanded the ...
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• Newspaper’s FOIA Request Yields Pages Of Blacked-Out Documents

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 781
  When President Obama took office, he earned widespread praise for loosening up Bush-era restrictions on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which outlines the process by which citizens can request previously unreleased information from federal agencies. The FOIA has been rightly hailed as a valuable ...
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• HHS releases FOIA report in less-than-ideal format

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 137
  Bob Garfield of WNYC’s “ On the Media ” talked to John Wonderlich, policy director at the Sunlight Foundation, about last week’s announcement of the Open Government Directive . Wonderlich says the initiative “is the administration making a real commitment to systemic change within the government.” He ...
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• 22 Million E-mails Missing From Bush White House Found

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 437
  22 Million E-mails Missing From Bush White House Found : Via Threat Level . White House computer technicians have found 22 million e-mails that were believed to have been lost during President George W. Bush’s administration, according to the Associated Press. The discovery was announced Monday by the National ...
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• FDIC, OTS Not Cooperating with Media Investigations

  
  The Big Picture — Authority: 150
  The Puget Sound Business Journal has done yeoman’s work investigating the storied history of WaMu. ( See The Rise & Fall of WaMu and The Last Days of WAMU ). I just found their most recent work, The fight for WaMu documents . It details some of the more absurd redactions that were made to the documents ...
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• If you disagree with the CO2/global warming proponents, you will be verbally attacked and insulted

  
  The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority: 137
  By: Al Whitney   (c) Copyright 2009ALL RIGHTS RESERVED                            This is a difficult message to send out, because many of us have discovered that if you disagree with the CO2/global warming proponents, you will be verbally attacked and insulted. Regrettably, I ...
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