I liked the 'as if it did not concern them' bit today.
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Openness Initiative Begins to Take Root
December 10th, 2009 by Steven Aftergood
The Obama Administration’s new open government policy has begun to elicit a response from executive branch agencies. The Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, and other agencies issued news releases yesterday outlining the initial steps they are taking to fulfill the December 8
White House Open Government Directive (11pp pdf).
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy posted a
request for public comment on how to enhance public access to federally-funded science and technology research...
Most national security and intelligence agencies, however, met the new Open Government Directive with silence,
as if it did not concern them.
But many such agencies maintain unclassified databases that are potentially of great public interest, and that ought to be broadly accessible. We have nominated two candidates in particular for disclosure under the new open government policy.
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Disclosure of TSA Manual Stirs Leak Anxiety
December 10th, 2009 by Steven Aftergood
Meanwhile, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh yesterday lashed out at the Federation of American Scientists in his own commentary on the TSA Manual disclosure....
This is not as gratifying as it might have been, since FAS had nothing to do with the disclosure of the TSA Manual. In fact, had we been the ones to discover the unredacted Manual, we probably would have refrained from publishing it.
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/