[DOWNLOAD] "When Is the Pentagon Exempt from Revealing the Truth?" by Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: When Is the Pentagon Exempt from Revealing the Truth?
- Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 252 KB
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Introduction In America, the citizenry's right to access public information is considered sacred. Since 1966, with the adoption of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), access to public information has allowed watchdog groups, journalists and individuals to view federal documents. What some in the government would like to hide under a cloak of secrecy has been revealed through the efforts of those who subscribe to open information. But now this presumed right has been challenged. With the passage of The Defense Authorization Act in December 2005 by the Congress of the United States, which renders the Defense Intelligence Agency's operational files fully immune to FOIA requests, the Department of Defense has been granted exemption from openness (Phillips 2006, 61).