Open Government

Government Secrecy Report Card Offers Mixed Results For Obama

Ryan J. Reilly | September 8, 2010, 4:34PM

A new report by a coalition of 70 government watchdog groups found that the backlog of Freedom of Information Act requests has gone down by 40 percent during the first nine months of the Obama administration.

But the report also notes that the declassification system continues to fall further behind, and addresses "looming secrecy problems" that the Obama administration should address. The report does not measure the impact of the White House's Open Government Initiative.

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