an older story, but still worth reading (too late for LBN)

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Government keeping more secrets in name of national security

WASHINGTON - Federal agencies are using secrecy rules developed after the
9/11 attacks to hide embarrassing or controversial reports and data that the
federal government once routinely made public.
Environmental groups, scientific organizations and animal-rights advocates
are complaining about increasing difficulties in obtaining information on
what government inspectors are finding about worker safety at nuclear power
plants, toxic releases at chemical plants, or tests on live animals in
scientific laboratories.

http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=SECRETS-02-02-05&cat=WW

It mentions the Homeland Security "Critical Infrastructure Information"
restrictions that SEJ has protested, and also suggests that the recent train
derailment in South Carolina calls into question the new restrictions on
information that supposedly protect public security -- but actually endanger
it.

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