Lawsuit forces DoJ to admit that Obama administration sneakily killed transparency bill
by Cory Doctorow from on (#2DP5W)
The Freedom of the Press Foundation's lawsuit against the DoJ has resulted in the release of documents showing that a bill with that was nearly unanimously supported in Congress and the Senate was killed by behind-the-scene lobbying by the Department of Justice, which feared that they would lose the ability to arbitrarily reject Freedom of Information Act requests if the bill passed. (more")