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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: portage who wrote (515566)	12/24/2003 1:16:36 PM
From: Red Heeler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

executive order to cancel the Freedom of Information Act. How far off can that be? Bush/Cheney have already thumbed their noses at Congress and the courts, might as well make it "official."

To: portage who wrote (515566)	12/24/2003 1:25:30 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I predict General Wesley Clark will be our next President. clark04.com

To: portage who wrote (515566)	12/24/2003 1:29:33 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Next, I'm waiting for the bushcheney emergency executive order to cancel the Freedom of Information Act. Apparently you took a nap. This has already been issued, in a series of directives to agencies such as Interior, USDA, and HHS to presumptively deny FOIA requests. They'll never tear down the shell of FOIA, but it has been nearly completely gutted. It's a freedom in name only. commondreams.org Published on Monday, January 7, 2002 in the San Francisco Chronicle The Day Ashcroft Censored Freedom of Information by Ruth Rosen THE PRESIDENT DIDN't ask the networks for television time. The attorney general didn't hold a press conference. The media didn't report any dramatic change in governmental policy. As a result, most Americans had no idea that one of their most precious freedoms disappeared on Oct. 12. Yet it happened. In a memo that slipped beneath the political radar, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft vigorously urged federal agencies to resist most Freedom of Information Act requests made by American citizens."