Fine print inserted in the new budget proposal would gut a major provision of the law""empowerment of a new ombudsman to mediate disclosure disputes and prod agencies to end disgraceful runarounds in which citizen requests have been deep-sixed without a trace. Rather than fulfilling a bipartisan mandate to establish the ombudsman at the National Archives, Bush attempts a shell-game switch of the ombudsman to the DOJ. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.