Barticus

Excellent! The new Obama administration has issued a memo to all gov’t agencies, instructing them to take “affirmative steps” to make information public, and to “adopt a presumption in favor of disclosure”.

This is in contrast to the standing policy from Ashcroft instructing agencies to “disclose information only after considering all possible reasons to withhold it”.

If you ask me, this is a very good thing.

More info available frm the Electronic Frontier Foundation here: On Day One, Obama Demands Open Government