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If it were Bush doing this, it would be barely a drop in the bucket compared to all the other scary stuff he did. The fact that Obama is doing this is... highly alarming. What in the world about an ''intellectual property treaty'' can be so scary that it threatens national security if divulged? | If it were Bush doing this, it would be barely a drop in the bucket compared to all the other scary stuff he did. The fact that Obama is doing this is... highly alarming. What in the world about an ''intellectual property treaty'' can be so scary that it threatens national security if divulged? | ||
| − | At the very least, the administration should be required to explain the general nature of the threat before invoking national security.</let> | + | At the very least, the administration should be required to explain the general nature of the threat before invoking national security. |
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| + | * '''2009-03-14''' [http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/03/why-obama-really-classified-anti.html George Washington's Blog] | ||
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<let name=data index=TextShort>“The [[Obama administration|White House]] this week [http://www.keionline.org/misc-docs/3/ustr_foia_denial.pdf declared] (.pdf) the text of the proposed treaty a "properly classified" national security secret, in rejecting a [[Freedom of Information Act]] request by [[Knowledge Ecology International]].”</let> | <let name=data index=TextShort>“The [[Obama administration|White House]] this week [http://www.keionline.org/misc-docs/3/ustr_foia_denial.pdf declared] (.pdf) the text of the proposed treaty a "properly classified" national security secret, in rejecting a [[Freedom of Information Act]] request by [[Knowledge Ecology International]].”</let> | ||
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