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Blogs 41 - 45 of 213
CIA Tries to Withhold Information That Is Already Public The CIA has refused to allow Valerie Wilson, who was outed as an intelligence operative after her husband criticized the Bush administration, to publish her memoir because it discusses how long she worked for the agency, according to The New York Times. The CIA says the information, which was classified, still is classified - even though it has been published in the Congressional Record. For that reason, the agency says, So “The CIA’s effort to classify public domain information is an unreasonable attempt at prior restraint of publication and a violation of our First Amendment rights,” said Adam Rothberg, a spokesman for planned book publisher - and fellow plaintiff in the lawsuit suit - Simon & Schuster, in the Times. The CIA is sticking to its position, saying the information’s disclosure was a mistake.
Posted 06-01-2007 3:48 PM EDT ............................................................ Public Citizen Argues for Release of Hepatitis B Vaccine Information Giving the parents of a boy who was disabled by a hepatitis B vaccine information about the use of the vaccine in the On May 23, Public Citizen attorney Michael Kirkpatrick argued before a federal court in Access to this information would allow the public and independent researchers to determine whether particular vaccine lots have a higher rate of adverse events. Adverse events are reported to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), but without knowing how many doses from a certain lot have been used, researchers cannot calculate and compare the adverse event rate for the vaccines. In March 2003, plaintiffs Dr. and Mrs. Robert Sharkey of For more information about the case, look here.
Posted 05-30-2007 5:08 PM EDT ............................................................ Cheney Wants to Keep His Visitors Secret Vice President Dick Cheney’s office apparently doesn’t want anyone to know exactly who’s visiting him at his residence. A newly released letter from Cheney’s lawyer, dated last September, tells the Secret Service that it should not keep any copies of information about the visitors to Cheney’s residence. The letter was posted on the Web site of the Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which has filed a lawsuit seeking the identities of conservative religious leaders who had visited the vice president at his official residence. For more information about the letter, look here.
Posted 05-30-2007 4:33 PM EDT ............................................................ Who’s Making Global Warming Political Today? The Smithsonian Apparently concerned about upsetting lawmakers or the Bush administration, the Smithsonian toned down an Arctic climate change exhibit last year - doing such things as altering the text of the exhibit to make the relationship between global warming and humans seem more uncertain, according to The Associated Press. Robert Sullivan, who used to be the associate director in charge of exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (he resigned last fall), says the museum’s leaders didn’t want to anger politicians, although he did acknowledge that he knew of no one in the administration who pressured the Smithsonian. “The obsession with getting the next allocation and appropriation was so intense that anything that might upset the Congress or the White House was being looked at very carefully,” Sullivan said. The White House says that it had “no role” in the exhibit.
Posted 05-22-2007 2:32 PM EDT ............................................................ Justice Department Refuses to Release Documents Even with all the negative attention it’s received over the According to The Washington Post, the Justice Department has released almost 6,000 pages of documents relevant to the firing of the eight The withheld papers include e-mails that discuss media strategies, drafts of letters to Capitol Hill, memos and other documents, according to the Post. Can’t imagine that Congress is going to like this … Posted 04-27-2007 2:42 PM EDT
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