Freedom of Information Was Hard-Won: It Must Not Be Diluted Now
New Statesman › August 18, 2009
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New Statesman › August 18, 2009
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Any dilution now of the freedom of information regime, still imperfect and far from loved by users and officials, would be a sad reversal of a hard-fought-for right. Now an ordinary citizen, a charity worker called Chris Ames, is using the Freedom of Information Act to attempt to find the truth about the origin of the "45 minutes claim" in the dossiers leading up to war with Iraq (see page 16).
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Freedom of Information Was Hard-Won: It Must Not Be Diluted Now
Information is power, and any government's attitude about sharing information with the people actually says a great deal about how it views power itself, and how it views the relationship between itself and the ...
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