Air Force One Flyover: 146 Photos Released to Public

The Pentagon has released 146 photos from an Air Force One photoshoot that caused huge public outcry earlier this year. The Air Force One photos, as well as the Air Force One photoshoot flight manifest, have been...

Obama Closes Doors on Openness

Obama has reverted to a Bush policy that he had decried as a senator and that is in apparent violation of his stated policy on Transparency and Open Government.  " My Administration is committed to creating...

NY Freedom of Information Law Put to Test (UPDATED!)

Barely three weeks after New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, sent an inflammatory and provocative letter to Chevron Corporation’s David J. O’Reilly, I sent a communication of my own. To...

Obama on information, environment sharp contrast to Canada

Breaking NewsOn Friday, February 6, 2009, the federal government annouced sweeping changes to the Navigable Waters Protection Act (NWPA). The proposed changes are incorporated into Budget Bill C-10. Lake...

Public needs access to electronic records says Ont. appeal court

The Ontario Court of Appeal, in a 3-0 decision issued January 13, has ruled that municipal governments must make available electronic records that the public is entitled to see under freedom of information even if it means developing new software to do so. The case was...

Bbc Won't Reveal Cost of Staff on Us Junket

Deborah Hobson - EXCLUSIVE British public service broadcaster, the BBC, has decided that Tv licence fee payers do not have a right to know how much money was spent in news coverage of last month’s monumental American presidential election. They have refused to answer...

Extreme assessments and paranoid conclusions

These are my thoughts after giving the New York Times article a little bit more time to settle there are three points that I wanted to review further.  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/fashion/13psych.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin The first was how the...

Microsoft Denies Credit to Bug-Hunter with Racy Name - censorship,microsoft,w...

Back to Story - Help Microsoft Denies Credit to Bug-Hunter with Racy Name Robert McMillan, IDG News ServiceSun Feb 17, 10:30 AM...

White-House Overwrote E-Mail

"E-mail messages sent and received by White-House personnel during the first three years of the Bush-administration were routinely "recycled,". During the period in question, the Bush presidency faced some of its biggest controversies, including the Iraq-war. ""Two federal...

NDP Releases TransLink Governance Review Panel Submissions Through Freedom of...

As the B.C. Legislature debates Bill 43 to turn the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority into the South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority and altering its governance structure and processes, the NDP caucus research branch has filed a freedom of information...

Politician's £45,000 travel expenses

A Labour politician has said he may reduce the number of constituency meetings he attends after his £44,985 travel expenses claim was revealed in a Freedom of Information case against the House of...

Wikileaks - the truth is in there...somewhere

Political activists and whistleblowers may have gained a new friend in Wikileaks, an ambitious project that allows anyone to anonymously publish documents to its website. By allowing anonymous, untraceable...

Holiday in Iraq for sun, sand ... and burnt-out tanks

"Burnt-out tanks and spent shells should become tourist attractions in Iraq, according to extraordinary proposals in a taxpayer-funded report. The Government dossier suggests drumming up foreign visitors by placing battlefield debris at strategic points around the country and...

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