In the Kingdom of the Half-Blind

By Moyers, Bill

Book Id: WPLBN0000683329
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 103,322 KB.
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	In the Kingdom of the Half-Blind
Author:	Moyers, Bill
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government Reference Publication, Transportation., Transportation Administrative Service Center (U.S.)
Collections:	National Security Archive Collection
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Publisher:	Transportation Security Administration


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Excerpt
Thank you for inviting me to take part in this anniversary celebration of The National Security Archive. Your organization has become indispensable to journalists, scholars, and any other citizen who believes the USA belongs to the people and not to the government. It?s always a fight to find out what the government doesn?t want us to know. And no one in this town has done more to fight for open democracy or done more to see that the Freedom of Information Act fulfills its promise than the Archive. The fight goes back a long way. You?ll find a fine account of it in Herbert Foerstel?s book, Freedom of Information and the Right to Know: The Origins and Application of the Freedom of Information Act (Greenwood Press, 1999). Foerstel tells us that although every other 18th century democratic constitution includes the public?s right to information, there were two exceptions: Sweden and the United States.