New British freedom of information act used to expose House of Commons scandal
London’s Daily Telegraph used computer records to probe the spending of British politicians leading to the exposure of dubious practices of both Labor and Conservative members of Parliament and the ousting of the speaker of the House of Commons. -DB New York Times May 19, 2009 By John F. Burns LONDON — It began modestly enough back in 2005, when an American freelance writer and journalism teacher living in London, Heather Brooke, entered a request