In The Dark?

While the Obama Administration has pledged to make government more open, it is citing security concerns more often as a reason to keep the public in the dark. The Pentagon, intelligence community, NASA, Office of Management and Budget and nearly every other big department invoked the national security exemption last year in rejecting requests. TheAssociated Press reports, the government is answering more open-records requests overall. It released two-thirds of the documents requested by the public last year. The other third included cases where agencies couldn't find records, a person refused to pay for copies or the request was improper.