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AP review: Use of FOIA exemptions rose in 2009

By The Associated Press

03.16.10



WASHINGTON — Federal agencies haven’t lived up to President Barack Obama’s promise of a more open government, increasing their use of legal exemptions to keep records secret during his first year in office.



An Associated Press review of Freedom of Information Act reports filed by 17 major agencies found that the use of nearly every one of the law’s nine exemptions to withhold information from the public rose in fiscal year 2009, which ended last October.



Among the most frequently used exemptions: one that lets the government hide records that detail its internal decision-making.



http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22720



That and more on Obama administration's lack of transparency- http://www.firstamendmentcoalition.org/category/resources/federal-foia/
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