NPR's "On the Media" talks about Bush FOIA end run
Tucked away into President Bush's 2009 budget was language that
eliminates the FOIA ombudsman. The newly-created position was at the
heart of legislation that Bush recently signed into law, and was
intended to expedite government's response to Freedom of Information
Act
requests.
Cox Newspapers' Rebecca Carr
explains that without the ombudsman position we shouldn't expect any improvements in the painfully slow FOIA process.
See the transcript