'Right to know' fails to open the Government's vaults of secrets

lovuian

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Sat Dec-31-05 12:02 AM
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'Right to know' fails to open the Government's vaults of secrets

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article335777.ece

Labour's much-trumpeted freedom of information laws have failed to open up Whitehall to public scrutiny, judging by the evidence of the first 12 months of the new order.

A year after we were first granted the "right to know", new figures show nine out of 17 government departments have failed to provide adequate answers to half of the requests they received.

Gordon Brown's Treasury was the worst offender by refusing to release information in three-quarters of all "resolvable" requests.

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They can write a law but that doesn't mean people have to follow it...

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Metta

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Sat Dec-31-05 12:11 AM
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1. What's your point?

*Our* fascists have been doing that all along.

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