gregh  2007-07-13 19:28  government  Law  secrecy   

OpenTheGovernment.org - Report: Government Secrecy on the Rise:

Over the past six years, President Bush has used executive orders to limit use of the Freedom of Information Act and Presidential Records Act, expanded the power to classify information for national security reasons, and created a range of new categories of "sensitive" information. In some cases, the government has gone so far as to reclassify documents that had been available to the general public for many years.

Not exactly a surprise, but it's always good to have numbers.

Read the full report here.