Dan Metcalfe, adjunct professor of law at American University

Why can't the government do a better job at Freedom of Information Act requests?

The federal government denied a record number of public requests for documents last year. It cited legal exemptions from the Freedom of Information Act. The data suggests the Obama Administration is falling short of its pledge to be the most transparent in history.

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