Government Secrecy Grows Under Bush Crime Family
Here is a website and a report that EVERYONE needs to check out:
Open The Government.org - Americans For Less Secrecy, More Democracy
It is entirely possible that the reader has NOT heard of this organization before, but, I can tell you that the report that they released should be on the reading list of every dedicated patriot in this country. Simply put, the USA has slowly become the USSA, and we are at the juncture where the Bush Crime Family has become the most secretive of all.
Considering that high-treason is the stock in trade of the current administration, none of this is terribly surprising, even though it remains highly disturbing to those of us who mourn what America once was, and not the AmeriKa we have turned into.
Download and read the following report (PDF file):
Open The Government.org - Secrecy Report Card 2005
Even though the report is only twelve pages long, it features information that is impossible to ignore.
Let us take a look, shall we?
PRIVATE ENTERPRISE (pg. 3)
124 New Patents Kept Secret, 4,885 “Secrecy Orders” in Effect
In 2004, the federal government closed the lid on 124 patents. Overall, that brings the total number of inventions kept under “secrecy orders” to 4,885.
CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS (pg. 3)
$148 Spent Creating New Secrets for Every $1 Spent Releasing Old Secrets
For every $1 the federal government spent in 2004 releasing old secrets, it spent an extraordinary $148 creating new secrets. That’s a $28 jump from 2003. In contrast, from 1997 to 2001, the government spent less than $20 per year keeping secrets for every dollar spent declassifying them.
15.6 Million Classification Decisions Costing $7.2 Billion
The government decided to stamp documents secret a record 15.6 million times in 2004. The U.S. government last year alone spent $7.2 billion securing its classified information. That’s more than any annual cost in at least a decade.
Every Choice to Classify Documents As Secret Costs Taxpayers $460
Every document classified cost the government $460 to secure that document plus its accumulated secrets.
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (pg. 3)
The Public Made 4,080,737 Requests for Documents
In 2004, the public made over 4 million requests for information from government agencies, which is a 25 percent jump in overall requests from the previous year, despite only a 5 percent rise ( to $336.8 million) in spending on FOIA.
ONCE RARE "STATE SECRETS" PRIVILEGE USED 23 TIMES IN 4 YEARS (pg. 3)
The “state secrets” privilege allows the sitting U.S. president to nearly unilaterally withhold documents from the courts, Congress and the public. At the height of the Cold War, the administration used the privilege only 4 times between 1953 and 1976. Since 2001, it has been used 23 times.
These are just some of the findings of this report, and I urge all readers to read this report, as it is a sad indication of the POLICE-STATE MENTALITY of the Neo-CONS and the BUSH CRIME FAMILY.
Open The Government.org - Americans For Less Secrecy, More Democracy
It is entirely possible that the reader has NOT heard of this organization before, but, I can tell you that the report that they released should be on the reading list of every dedicated patriot in this country. Simply put, the USA has slowly become the USSA, and we are at the juncture where the Bush Crime Family has become the most secretive of all.
Considering that high-treason is the stock in trade of the current administration, none of this is terribly surprising, even though it remains highly disturbing to those of us who mourn what America once was, and not the AmeriKa we have turned into.
Download and read the following report (PDF file):
Open The Government.org - Secrecy Report Card 2005
Even though the report is only twelve pages long, it features information that is impossible to ignore.
Let us take a look, shall we?
PRIVATE ENTERPRISE (pg. 3)
124 New Patents Kept Secret, 4,885 “Secrecy Orders” in Effect
In 2004, the federal government closed the lid on 124 patents. Overall, that brings the total number of inventions kept under “secrecy orders” to 4,885.
CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS (pg. 3)
$148 Spent Creating New Secrets for Every $1 Spent Releasing Old Secrets
For every $1 the federal government spent in 2004 releasing old secrets, it spent an extraordinary $148 creating new secrets. That’s a $28 jump from 2003. In contrast, from 1997 to 2001, the government spent less than $20 per year keeping secrets for every dollar spent declassifying them.
15.6 Million Classification Decisions Costing $7.2 Billion
The government decided to stamp documents secret a record 15.6 million times in 2004. The U.S. government last year alone spent $7.2 billion securing its classified information. That’s more than any annual cost in at least a decade.
Every Choice to Classify Documents As Secret Costs Taxpayers $460
Every document classified cost the government $460 to secure that document plus its accumulated secrets.
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (pg. 3)
The Public Made 4,080,737 Requests for Documents
In 2004, the public made over 4 million requests for information from government agencies, which is a 25 percent jump in overall requests from the previous year, despite only a 5 percent rise ( to $336.8 million) in spending on FOIA.
ONCE RARE "STATE SECRETS" PRIVILEGE USED 23 TIMES IN 4 YEARS (pg. 3)
The “state secrets” privilege allows the sitting U.S. president to nearly unilaterally withhold documents from the courts, Congress and the public. At the height of the Cold War, the administration used the privilege only 4 times between 1953 and 1976. Since 2001, it has been used 23 times.
These are just some of the findings of this report, and I urge all readers to read this report, as it is a sad indication of the POLICE-STATE MENTALITY of the Neo-CONS and the BUSH CRIME FAMILY.
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