rolling back freedom here so we don't have fight it over there
Can't you see you're breaking his heart, San Antonio? Can't you?
USA Today:
The federal government will pay a Texas law school $1 million to do research aimed at rolling back the amount of sensitive data available to the press and public through freedom-of-information requests.
Beginning this month, St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio will analyze recent state laws that place previously available information, such as site plans of power plants, beyond the reach of public inquiries.
Jeffrey Addicott, a professor at the law school, said he will use that research to produce a national "model statute" that state legislatures and Congress could adopt to ensure that potentially dangerous information "stays out of the hands of the bad guys."
"There's the public's right to know, but how much?" said Addicott, a former legal adviser in the Army's Special Forces.
"There's a strong feeling that the law needs to balance that with the need to protect the well-being of the nation. ... There's too much stuff that's easy to get that shouldn't be," he said.
The federal Freedom of Information Act, which became law 40 years ago this week, has long been a source of tension between the government and the public and news media.
Must be some kinda bug going around the colleges in San-An-Tone.
When it comes to federal largesse (that's fancy speechin' for "pork"), a million bucks doesn't normally carry a whole lotta weight, though my guess is that might go a long mile at a smaller or mid-sized univeristy. No matter how you slice it, though, it adds up to dolla dolla bills y'all that could be spent someplace else, far more responsibly:
The Bush administration has consistently ignored or opposed commonsense measures to protect Americans from potentially catastrophic terrorist attacks – an inaction that reflects officials’ aversion to regulating private industry and allegiance to key campaign contributors a [2004] Public Citizen report shows.
Sucks not to be incorporated.
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