The Bush-Cheney Administration's Assault on Open Government

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Bruce P. Montgomery

Book Code: C9904

ISBN: 0-275-99904-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99904-9

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232 pages, n/a

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 2/28/2008

List Price: $49.95 (UK Sterling Price: £27.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Endorsement From Steven Aftergood,
Project on Government Secrecy, Federation of American Scientists: Before we can find our way to open, accountable government, we need to realize just how far we have drifted in the opposite direction. This provocative book helps illuminate the erosion of open government in recent years, and so it helps lay the foundation for change.
Endorsement From Lucy Dalglish,
Executive Director, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: Montgomery's book substantiates what many of us have felt in our gut for the past six years: Democracy has been under assault by the Bush administration. In an effort to reclaim executive powers they believe were taken away from the president after the Watergate era, these public officials have eviscerated the rights of American citizens to participate in their government.

Description: The Bush-Cheney administration took office in 2001 determined to assert the preeminent authority of the executive branch and its immunity from congressional oversight and public transparency. Within months, Congress's "Use of Force" resolution on the heels of the 9/11 terrorist attacks gave the White House the platform for launching an aggressive and successful campaign to gut the nation's open government laws, neuter congressional prerogatives, and shroud the presidency in privilege and secrecy. With military precision, the wartime executive targeted and struck down or flouted all the landmark sunshine laws enacted by Congress over the preceding decades: Freedom of Information Act (1966) Presidential Records Act (1978) Budget and Accounting Act establishing the General Accountability Office (1921) Federal Advisory Committee Act (1972) Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act (1978) Montgomery, who founded the world's largest academic repository of contemporary human rights documents, concludes with a summary of the aggregate impact of Bush-Cheney's attacks on open and balanced government and their implications for the future of constitutional and human rights in the United States.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1 Freedom of Information Act in Retreat
2 Overturning the Presidential Records Act
3 Challenging the GAOs Statutory Powers
4 Defeating the Federal Advisory Committee Act
5 Subverting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Notes
Bibliography

LC Card Number: 2007043616

LCC Class: KF5753

Dewey Class: 342

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