Who needs to know? : the state of public access to federal government information / Patrice McDermott.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

There ought to be a law : the need for findable and usable information -- Tracking the wild government : the Federal Records Act and government publications -- Government-wide information policy -- The regulatory system for accountability : the Freedom of Information Act -- The Critical Infrastructure Information Act : the story of a FOIA exemption -- Access restricted : the black hole of "sensitive but unclassified" information -- Classified information : reclassified, overclassified, and misused -- The executive's power over information access -- Manipulating information : the dangerous capacities of the executive branch -- Political science -- A republic : how to keep it.