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Editorial: Proposed FOIA rule changes seek to keep citizens in

dark

The Obama administration should not undercut the Freedom of Information

Act by letting federal agencies lie about information.

By The Denver Post

Posted: 10/26/2011 01:00:00 AM MDT

The federal Freedom of Information Act was supposed to be a torch that

journalists, advocates and ordinary people could use to cast a light on

the operations of their government.

It's profoundly disappointing to see the Obama administration proposing

changes to FOIA that would allow federal agencies to lie about the very

existence of information being sought.

That's not progress, and it's certainly not transparency, a principle the

president has repeatedly and publicly pledged allegiance to....