The Salt Lake Tribune
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Change has come to... wait... hold the phone
Think the Obama Administration is going to arbitrarily let go of eight years of secrecy and executive power grabbing?

Wake up and smell the FOIAs..

The Justice Department You Can Believe In is defending Bush administration decisions to keep secret many documents about domestic wiretapping, data collection on travelers and U.S. citizens, and interrogation of suspected terrorists, writes the Associated Press.

"The signs in the last few days are not entirely encouraging," said Jameel Jaffer, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, told the AP.

Added a frustrated ACLU executive director Anthony Romero: "This is not change."

-mdl

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