Actually, it has _nothing_ to do with the Freedom of Information Act. FOIA was never meant for ALL work product or documents produced by the government. Never.
It does not cover things like the Valerie Plame incident, nor the more recent outing of the lead intel officer in Pakistan. And doesn't affect corporations at all. Especially not details like the home phone and address of corporate officers, nor the preschool and classroom assignments for corporate worker's children. Should corporate officers (possibly our society's second estate) be held to a different standard than members of the fourth estate? I personally don't think so. Working for the government DOES carry with it different rules than working for the private sector. But it does not remove all protections. As others pointed out, the "it's different" defense is almost ALWAYS a key statement made excusing hypocrisy. On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 7:04 PM, denstar <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Michael Dinowitz wrote: > ... > > If you take a government contract do you expect all of your > > information and reviews of your actions to become public knowledge? > > Actually, that is kinda what's supposed to happen. > > Working for the government is different than working as/for a private > citizen. > > I think it has something to do with the Freedom of Information act. > > :Den > > -- > No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or > willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who > do base and evil things to them unwillingly. > Protagoras > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:332773 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
