2 posts tagged “laws”
Has the Bush administration lost its power to rule without public legitimacy?
It seems doubtful, but it is still hopeful that the FBI desire to learn everyone's secret interests (via internet logs they probably didn't even know are kept) and the President's various declarations of secret powers enabling him to ignore the rules of law -- except those he likes or creates without aid from the legislature-- are being discovered and questioned.
Of course, not to go too Philip K. Dickesque on y'all, it is still possible that a secret government has been created that will not be found, overruled or conquered by the new administration taking "power" in January 2009.
They (whoever they are) say "information wants to be free." But governments usually disagree with citizens about which information has that particular yearning. In the States, there was a recent revising of the Freedom of Information Act, which will make it a more efficient process, but, according to Steven Aftergood, of the Federation of American Scientists, "one thing it does not do, however, is alter the criteria for secrecy and disclosure," which lets the government continue to pick and choose among the aching-to-be-free bits and pieces of information.
