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Audit: Bush Barely Trims FOIA Backlog
Mar 16 2008, AP

Despite ordering improvements more than two years ago, President Bush has barely made a dent in the huge backlog of unanswered requests under the Freedom of Information Act.At the same time, an audit by the National Security Archive found that Bush has...

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