At 51, FOIA may be more relevant than ever
By Michael R. Lemov, Baltimore Sun, Apr. 29, 2018
Every president who served during the decades-long struggle to enact an open government law — primarily Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson — opposed it. They asserted a law opening up government records to the public would infringe on exclusive presidential power under the Constitution to control access to government information.
History has proved them wrong. The president does not possess such exclusive power.
Now, another president and his agencies are forcing a new struggle, to test whether the 51-year-old Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) can still be effective in lifting a veil of secrecy over the actions of the Executive Branch.
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