The head of the Democratic Party said Wednesday that the best way to get presidential candidates to talk frankly about issues is to lock out the media. Dean said. “If you want to hear the truth from them, you have … Continued
Venezuelan strongman, Hugo Chavez, has taken over the the nation’s oldest private television network, Radio Caracas Television. A state run television station will replace RCT. Government control of the organs of information distribution is a symptom of the command and … Continued
Virginia Tech college student, Cho Seung-Hui had been judged mentally ill and a danger to himself and others yet his parents didn’t know. Virginia Tech was prevented from telling them by FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. FERPA … Continued
Virginia Tech shooter, Cho Seung-Hui, had an apparently troubled past that was kept secret in the interest of his privacy. Whether or not disclosure of his troubled past might have prevented some or all of the 32 deaths is an … Continued
News organizations filed documents in federal court Monday opposing a government request to close portions of an upcoming trial of two former pro-Israel lobbyists accused of violating the Espionage Act. Media organizations, including The Associated Press, are concerned the government … Continued
The oldest reported Freedom of Information Act request in the federal government resides at the Justice Department and is 18 years old — or, as the National Security Archive, a research group that tracks these things, likes to say, “old … Continued
The publically funded federal agency that traditionally keeps tabs on earmarks, the Library of Congress Congressional Research Service (CRS), has announced it no longer will respond to requests from congressional members on the number or scale of earmarks. This, because … Continued
Corporate America’s traditional secrecy on political spending is under attack from an investor drive for greater transparency before the 2008 presidential election campaign. Now that pension fund managers are facing vast shortages in pension fund balances they are going to … Continued
Giovanni Mola, 38, who claimed to have had 200 lovers, refused to wear condoms after starting a relationship with the woman in Edinburgh in 2003. His lover is now infected. We have argued for several years that the AIDS epidemic … Continued
According to Internet guru, John Gilmore, “The net treats censorship as damage and routes around it.” The technologies that provide anonymity to the paedophile and the terrorist also protect the political dissident and the whistle-blower. In that sense, Internet open … Continued