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Obama administration urges bypassing Freedom of Information Act to contact agencies directly

donal brown November 16, 2010

Obama administration officials are saying that obtaining government documents through the FOIA is necessarily a lengthy process and contacting government officials directly would yield better results. -db NextGov November 15, 2010 By Aliya Sternstein The White House’s open government leader said Americans should not bother filing requests for government documents under the Freedom of Information Act and instead should contact open government officials at agencies who can post or e-mail the materials faster. Beth Noveck,

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Fired Compton City lawyer loses libel suit against ex-supervisor

donal brown November 16, 2010

A California appeals court ruled that a libel suit brought by a lawyer fired by the City of Compton was properly dismissed on technical grounds since the lawyer failed to amend his complaint as directed by the trial court. -db Metropolitan News-Enterprise November 15, 2010 By Kenneth Ofgang A suit by a lawyer who claims he was wrongly fired by the City of Compton and defamed by his supervisor there was properly dismissed on technical grounds,

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UNPLUG WIKILEAKS? ENACT A FEDERAL SHIELD LAW INSTEAD

Peter Scheer November 16, 2010

BY PETER SCHEER—-The Obama administration has made no secret of its desire to unplug wikileaks, the whistleblower website infamous for data dumps of classified records. Of the few options available to the government, the best is one that probably hasn’t been considered in this context: enacting a federal Shield Law. How would a Shield Law–a version of which has passed the House and awaits a vote by the full Senate—put Wikileaks out of business? The

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Rensselaer team leads in making flood of government data intelligible

donal brown November 15, 2010

The Obama administration has begun to release raw government data in an unprecedented transparency initiative, but without context, the public cannot make sense of the data. Now a team from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has stepped up to make the data intelligible through sorting, combining and presenting the data in visual form. -db The New York Times November 15, 2010 By Steve Lohr In May 2009, the Obama administration started putting raw government data on the

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National Archives challenges CIA on destruction of tapes of brutal interrogations

donal brown November 15, 2010

The National Archives and Records Administration said they plan to investigate whether the CIA’s destruction of tapes showing brutal interrogations of terror suspects constituted improper destruction of federal records. -db NBC News November 10, 2010 By Michael Isikoff The legal inquiries into the CIA’s destruction of videotapes showing the brutal interrogation of terror suspects may not be over after all. A day after the Justice Department announced that a special counsel had concluded his investigation

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