Previous Politech message: "House adds life-in-prison-for-hackers to Homeland Security bill" http://www.politechbot.com/p-04162.html --- Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:39:22 -0700 From: John Fleck <jfleckat_private> To: Declan McCullagh <declanat_private> Subject: FOIA in the Homeland Security Bill Declan - Of possible interest to the politechbot list: The Society of Professional Journalists has taken a strong stand against language in the House-passed version of the Homeland Security bill that the organization says "blows an enormous hole in the federal Freedom of Information Act." The bill's provisions would essentially fence off large amounts of previously available information, according to SPJ: http://www.spj.org/news.asp?ref=299 Cheers, John -- John Fleck, science writer Albuquerque Journal, PO Drawer J, Albuquerque NM, 87103 (505) 823-3916 jfleckat_private (w), jfleckat_private (h) http://www.abqjournal.com/scitech/, http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/ "When building sand castles on the beach, we can ignore the waves but should watch the tide." - Edsger Dijkstra ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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