<![CDATA[The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) Blog: Ashcroft can’t put the milk back in the jar:
The Justice Department reversed its position on documents related to FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, resulting in a victory for advocates of open government. Some information from an unclassified briefing was classified after letters based on this briefing were publicly available for two years. Essentially, the Justice Department tried to kill public debate on Edmond’s allegations of serious problems in the FBI by attempting to yank documents out of the public’s hands. Yet it’s hard to make a case for classification once information is already out of the box.
Score one for the good guys.]]>