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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 22:23:41 +0100
From: Mario Profaca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [Spy News] A disturbing pattern of secrecy is emerging from the White
House
http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story123035.html
End the pattern of secrecy
Monday, December 17, 2001
The Bush administration has shown a troublesome tendency to use its power to
stifle information it doesn't want public.
A DISTURBING pattern of secrecy is emerging from the White House.
The latest hit limiting access to government business came last week
when President Bush invoked executive privilege to block Congress from
seeing prosecutors' memos in some criminal cases. Even stalwart Republican
leaders were angered by the move, and rightfully so.
This nation was founded on the ideal of public trust. Representative
democracy relies upon more, not less, information by which citizens hold
accountable those officials who govern on their behalf. But lately, the Bush
administration has made some ill-considered moves that would keep the
electorate uninformed about government actions.
Last month, Bush struck a blow against openness with an executive order
allowing sitting or former presidents - even the families of deceased
presidents - to veto release of their papers to historians or the media.
That's regrettable, showing disregard for providing an accurate, historical
record.
Members of the president's own party were justified in their outrage
last week when he ordered Attorney General John Ashcroft to prevent a
congressional committee from reviewing documents, including those about a
scandal involving the FBI and mob informants in Boston and Bill Clinton's
fund-raising tactics.
Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., the committee chairman, said in frustration and
anger, "It seems like the Justice Department is more interested in creating
a new policy of secrecy than in accommodating our need to get to the bottom
of the Boston mess."
Congress' investigative and auditing office is considering a lawsuit
against the Bush White House to force it to identify industry executives who
met with Vice President Dick Cheney about energy policy. Several weeks ago,
the administration asked the cooperation of TV networks in refraining from
airing propaganda tapes of Osama bin Laden. Unfortunately, the networks
complied.
If America is to stay true to its ideals, President Bush should reassess
his tendency toward secrecy.
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