''A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.'' --James Madison

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See http://www.usdoj.gov/foia for details of FreedomOfInformation in US law ... now gutted by the UsaPatriotAct.

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See also: FourFreedoms

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