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1. The Kicker

   Press Freedom Hating Flack Caught on Tape

   April 13, 2009 06:19 PM

   Last week David Schultz, a reporter for Washington DC public radio station WAMU, had his audio recorder seized by Veterans Affairs officials while recording an interview with an audience member in a hallway outside a public forum. Under outcry, the... Continue reading

2. The Kicker

   Sometimes Silence Speaks Volumes

   April 13, 2009 10:17 AM

   Last week saw a burgeoning controversy develop over the Obama administration's decision to invoke the state secrets privilege in a case being brought by a handful of people who claim their constitutional rights were violated by warrantless wiretapping... Continue reading

3. The Kicker

   That depends on your definition of “touch”…

   April 10, 2009 03:55 PM

   From Julie Rovner's NPR story on the impending Obama puppy: Dog commentator David Frei, the voice of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, says he is not at all surprised by the huge outpouring of public interest in... Continue reading

4. Campaign Desk

   Obama and State Secrets? Shhh…

   April 10, 2009 03:29 PM

   Obama, like Bush, decides to limit what the courts and the people can know about warrantless wiretapping. Isn’t that a big story? Not just yet. On April 3, the Holder Justice Department filed arguments in Jewel v. National Security Agency,... Continue reading

5. The Kicker

   why???!!!

   April 10, 2009 10:07 AM

   Taking off of Megan's car chase post below, I see that NBC big shot David Gregory has just posted the following to Twitter: watching msnbc now. why are all the crazy drivers who run from the... Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   Ars Technica picks up on PACER

   April 9, 2009 11:08 AM

   Timothy B. Lee, writing at Ars Technica, the Conde Nast owned technology site, has an thorough state-of-play summary of the federal courts' public access system, PACER. PACER, an acronym for Public Access to Court Electronic Records, was once... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   Pollsters Duck NH Questions, Polling Loses

   April 9, 2009 09:58 AM

   Ten days ago, the American Association for Public Opinion Research, a major polling industry group, released its long awaited report on the 2008 New Hampshire Primary polling meltdown. While the report came to some hesitant conclusions about the mistakes and... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   Vermont Overrides Governor’s Marriage Veto

   April 7, 2009 12:44 PM

   The Vermont State House has just, by the narrowest of margins, overridden Governor Jim Douglas’s veto of a bill providing same-sex marriage rights. Together with the state senate’s wider and earlier override, the votes mean that Vermont becomes the first... Continue reading

9. Campaign Desk

   Dover, Behind The Scenes

   April 6, 2009 05:20 PM

   On February 26, when secretary Robert Gates announced that the Defense Department would develop procedures to allow media access to the arrival of soldiers’ bodies at Dover Air Force Base’s mortuary facilities, it set a breakneck procedural review into motion.... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    Tribune’s Unanswered Blagojevich Questions

    April 3, 2009 12:01 PM

    Yesterday’s indictment of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich puts the governor’s original misdeeds back in the crosshairs of a media that just cant seem to get enough of the unrepentant superstar. While most attention has focused on the... Continue reading

11. Campaign Desk

    AP Accesses Governor’s Inbox

    April 1, 2009 11:16 AM

    Last Wednesday, Jim Douglas, Vermont’s Republican governor, announced that he would veto a bill that would legalize same sex marriage if, as is expected, it passed the Democratic-controlled legislature. “I just got thinking, ‘Whoa, it would be interesting to... Continue reading

12. Campaign Desk

    Non-Responsive

    March 30, 2009 01:54 PM

    The American Association for Public Opinion Research has released its long-awaited report on polling in the 2008 New Hampshire Democratic Primary, available here as a 123-page pdf document. For those needing a refresher of the events of... Continue reading

13. Campaign Desk

    Holder Has A New FOIA Policy

    March 26, 2009 11:22 AM

    Last Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced new guidance giving Freedom of Information Act requesters broader access to government records. The memo effectively reverts to the standard established by Janet Reno in 1993: requested information is... Continue reading

14. Campaign Desk

    FOIA’s Hidden Exemptions

    March 19, 2009 02:28 PM

    The idea behind the Freedom of Information Act is simple: file a request for a document with the government, and they’ll turn it over. There are, of course, exceptions. The original Act, signed into law on July 4, 1966, listed... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    New FOIA Guidance Forseen

    March 19, 2009 02:22 PM

    Today, the Holder Justice department is expected to release new guidance on how the Freedom of Information Law should be implemented. In short, the department wants information officers to comply with all FOIA requests unless doing so would open the... Continue reading

16. The Kicker

    A Campaign Promise Kept

    March 17, 2009 02:14 PM

    When I was working on my profile of Carl Malamud, the transparency advocate who is running an unconventional campaign to become President Obama's pick to lead the Government Printing Office as the nation's 26th Public Printer, I asked... Continue reading

17. Campaign Desk

    Carl Malamud, Public Printer

    March 13, 2009 10:07 AM

    It was 1991, in the early days of the Internet. Carl Malamud was thirty-two years old, and deeply embedded in a community of computer engineers and visionaries shaping the world’s nascent online architecture as it was being built atop phone... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    FOIA Ombudsman gets $1 million

    March 11, 2009 04:30 PM

    The budget President Obama just signed includes one million dollars for the new Office of Government Information Services, which will be housed in the National Archives that is charged with serving as a government wide ombudsman for the Freedom of... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    Clarification on the White House’s CIO appointment

    March 5, 2009 01:57 PM

    This morning The White House announced that Vivek Kundra will become, as the press release’s opening line put it, “the Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the White House.” Kundra was until recently the District of Columbia’s Chief Technology Officer,... Continue reading

20. Campaign Desk

    About That 120 Day Deadline

    March 4, 2009 05:27 PM

    There’s been a spate of attention paid this week to the Chief Technology Officer, a yet-to-be-filled federal position that Barack Obama promised to create during his presidential campaign. And there's new indication that the CTO's first task won't be completed... Continue reading

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