TY - BOOK AU - McDermott,Patrice TI - Who needs to know?: the state of public access to federal government information SN - 9781598880502 AV - KF5753 .M33 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - Lanham, Md. PB - Bernan Press KW - Government information KW - Access control KW - United States KW - Freedom of information KW - Disclosure of information KW - Government policy N1 - 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 ER -