Quote of the Day - March 16, 2011 » Publications » Family Security Matters
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"Two years into its pledge to improve government transparency, the Obama administration took action on fewer requests for federal records from citizens, journalists, companies and others last year even as significantly more people asked for information.
"People requested information 544,360 times last year under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act from the 35 largest agencies, up nearly 41,000 more than the previous year, according to an analysis by The Associated Press of new federal data. But the government responded to nearly 12,400 fewer requests....
'Transparency promotes accountability and provides information for citizens about what their government is doing,' Obama said when he took office."
- - Yahoo News, March 15, 2011.
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