{"id":6119,"date":"2009-01-22T14:05:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T19:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6119"},"modified":"2009-01-22T14:05:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T19:05:43","slug":"steven-aftergood-president-obama-declares-a-new-era-of-openness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6119","title":{"rendered":"Steven Aftergood: President Obama declares &#8220;A New Era of Openness&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Steven Aftergood, Secrecy News, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/blog\/secrecy\/2009\/01\/a_new_era.html\">22 January 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Inevitably, several caveats are in order.\u00a0 A &#8220;presumption of disclosure&#8221; really  only applies to records that are potentially subject to discretionary release,  which is a finite subset of secret government information.\u00a0 Vast realms of  information are sequestered behind classification barriers or statutory  protections that remain unaffected by the new policy statements.\u00a0 &#8220;In the face  of doubt, openness prevails,&#8221; the President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/sgp\/obama\/foia012109.html\">said<\/a>.\u00a0 But throughout  the government secrecy system, there is not a lot of doubt or soul-searching about the application of secrecy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/blog\/secrecy\/2009\/01\/a_new_era.html\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Aftergood, Secrecy News, 22 January 2009 Inevitably, several caveats are in order.\u00a0 A &#8220;presumption of disclosure&#8221; really only applies to records that are potentially subject to discretionary release, which is a finite subset of secret government information.\u00a0 Vast realms &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6119\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1AH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6122,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119\/revisions\/6122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}