Bush Administration : Open Up and Say Ahhhh!

Áine on March 26th, 2005 filed in Politics

A federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a Washington D.C. law has put the federal government on the hot seat over its refusal to release information about what steps it has taken to prevent terrorist attacks on rail shipments, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The D.C. law requires that hazardous rail shipments be rerouted around the city, which the Bush administration argued violates constitutional limitations on interfering with interstate commerce. Noting that the federal government refused to share rail terrorism information with D.C., and then complained about the law D.C. Council members passed in an informational vacuum, presiding U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan on Wednesday ordered the Bush administration to disclose “what measures have been taken to prevent a terrorist attack on rail shipments.” - via Behind the Homefront

There we go. One more reason for Open Government.

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