For Immediate Release:
Treasury Wins 2008 "Rosemary Award" as Worst FOIA Agency
National Security Archive Annual Award Cites Shredded Letters, Decade-Long Delays, and Sub-Prime Performance
National Security Archive Annual Award Cites Shredded Letters, Decade-Long Delays, and Sub-Prime Performance
For more information contact the National Security Archive staff:
Thomas Blanton, Meredith Fuchs, Kristin Adair, Catherine Nielsen
202/994-7000
Washington DC, March 19, 2008 - As if the sub-prime credit crisis was not enough, the U.S. Treasury Department today won the fourth annual Rosemary Award for the worst performance by a federal agency under the Freedom of Information Act.
Given annually by the Emmy- and George Polk Award-winning National Security Archive at George Washington University, the Rosemary recognizes outstandingly bad responsiveness to the public that flouts the letter and spirit of the Freedom of Information Act. The Award is named after President Nixon’s secretary Rose Mary Woods and the backwards-leaning stretch with which she erased an eighteen-and-a-half minute section of a key Watergate conversation on the White House tapes.
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Once honest Paul O'Neill got fired for telling the truth it's been down hill ever since. Now Henry Paulson is only in the job to get what he can for his personal company. More thieves have robbed the US Treasury then there are criminals in all of the US jails. The Crooks have been running the White House since 2000 and now it's time to pull out.
It's so strange to hear the name of the lady who helped Nixon by erasing the exact part of the tape the Impeach Officials needed. It was so funny she had never made that mistake before and it was only the part that would have impeached the President that she erased. Now so say it was an accident others said she knew just what button to push. I thought she did what any Loyal Republican would have done and destroyed evidence. To bad for Dick that now computers are used it's the memory that will bring him down not the tape.
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