Judge Marsha Pechman, of the Western District of Washington in Seattle, ordered the IRS to get their shit together within the next thirty days and comply with THREE, count em three, Freedom of Information Act requests that were generated in 1976.

U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein wants to read the 2002 CIA torture memo. He wants to read it in order to decide whether or not to grant the ACLU request to make it public. From the CommonDreams writeup:
U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein issued the order after he had earlier said the 18-page memo [...]

Courtesy of CREW, Citizens for Responsibilty and Ethics in Washington has released their year end report. They note at the top of the page that despite the Democrat’s election vow to institute more checks and balances on Congressional ethics, not a damn thing has changed in that regard. No new enforcement regulations were put [...]

She has just begun to speak out. Listen to what she has to say. Gentlewomen and men, I give you..Valerie Plame and KO:

Plame on surviving the Washington spy game
They had no shame, those men that destroyed the trust of the CIA employees. Cheney made them all collateral damage in his little pissing contest.
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The NYT has a good Editorial read up this morning. It addresses the Bush administration’s propensity to find something, anything…to drum up their fear factoring in order to gain more power to spy on Americans. The title is: Spies,Lies and FISA. From the second paragraph of the editorial:
There is no truth to any of those [...]

Seems the Assholes running our federal government have removed every trace of information regarding the Freedom of Information Act from all government websites recently.
This should piss off everyone..and I mean everyone, regardless of party affiliation. It seems our current administration doesn’t want to provide information on how to use the Freedom of Information Act, [...]

 
…fuck-ups with power.

Blink.
How the fuck is a bitch supposed to trust the same government that has fucked up just about everything to do anything right?
My nerves are fried…the simplest of news item now inspires terror as a bitch contemplates the minions in charge actually trying to be in charge!
Example - the Pentagon will power down [...]

Many folks missed this anniversary yesterday. The Freedom of Information Act turned 40 years old. This IS a big deal, especially with the Asshat-in-Chief mucking up the friggin works for the last 6+ years. A little history, thanks to ACLU’s Anthony D. Romero on the act that has come to be known simply by the [...]