Who Are They Hiding And Why?

I think it's time liberals introduced legislation requiring Presidential nominees to undergo psychiatric testing. I've had it with Paranoid Stupid Lame Old Fucks. Let's not allow gamed voting machines to elect another one.

Public Citizen: "The federal government is unlawfully withholding information it normally provides the public about approximately 900,000 of its civilian employees, including employees working for such agencies as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), according to a suit filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York.

The lawsuit, brought by the co-directors of the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), charges that the agency violated the Freedom of Information Act by failing to provide requested information. Further, the agency didn’t even explain the grounds under which it is withholding information about employees working in more than 250 federal agencies.

The government first began providing the American people detailed information about all its employees in a register published almost 200 years ago. The first name in the first register, authorized by Congress in 1816, was President James Madison.

The current massive and unexplained withholding of personnel information came after a routine request made by TRAC under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in October 2004 for the names and work stations of most civilian employees working for the government in the second quarter of 2004. This information, which had been regularly provided to TRAC for many years, is an essential component of a university-based project that since 1989 has been providing the American people, reporters, public interest groups and others with comprehensive information about the operations of the federal government. In this case, however, after a lengthy delay, the government withheld information about 40 percent of its civilian employees."