March 02, 2007

Guidance, political appointees and secrecy

Majikthise comments on the executive order which the Bush Administration has installed to exercise more control over regulatory interpretation:

These new "regulatory policy officers" will have the final say about whether the recommendations of experts found their way into official advisories about how to implement policy. Worse, the communications between the RPO and the agency would be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act. So, for example, if the experts at the Mine Safety and Health Administration issue some inconvenient guidance about the implications of an occupational safety law, the RPO will be able to secretly squelch that advice.

Posted by binky at March 2, 2007 11:23 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Corruption | Hacktastic! | Politics


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