New excuses help keep government data secret
Sunday, March 20, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The government argues that a health official's required public financial disclosure reports should not become public. Some of President Bush's military records were not released because officials did not want to search boxes filled with rat excrement. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge's public schedules were withheld until he left office.
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