What is happening, especially at the highest levels of government, is basically un-American. Americans should be treated as owners of their government and of their government's information, not as supplicants to whom you dole it out when you feel like it.
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The purpose of Sunshine Week is twofold one, to make clear the extent big government has been curtailing the flow of information and news to the public, and two, to let people know ways to deal with this type of government behavior.Hodding Carter
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