However, an analysis of federal data released Wednesday by the Associated Press found that the Obama administration "set a record again for censoring government files or outright denying access to them last year under the US Freedom of Information Act".
The report was heavily censored by the administration and is too narrowly focused on the bungling of just the Central Intelligence Agency.
When the Bush administration censored scientists and rewrote scientific reports, too many scientific bodies stayed silent, worried about jeopardizing funding.
Daniel Schorr, whose aggressive reporting over 70 years as a respected broadcast and print journalist brought him into conflict with censors, the Nixon administration and network superiors, died on Friday in Washington.
The 511-page report, which was released by the committee last week after about 20percentt was censored by the administration, does not tell us what the C.I.A. and other agencies told Mr. Bush before he concluded that Iraq had dangerous weapons and that Saddam Hussein had to go.
And an analysis released [March 11th] by the Associated Press found that the administration censored more FOIA requests on national security grounds last year than in any other year since President Obama took office.
At virtually the same time, Northwestern professor, academic freedom champion, and author Alice Dreger was fighting to keep a faculty-produced bioethics journal, Atrium, from being censored by her administration for publishing an article that might just be interesting enough to read.
As reports have surfaced that American technology is being used by the Syrian government to monitor and censor its citizens, senior administrations reportedly said that "the measures should prompt all companies to think harder about how the technology they are providing to other countries might be employed and to take steps to ensure that it is not used in harmful ways".
In 1862, the House Judiciary Committee took up the question of "telegraphic censorship" and called for restraint on the part of the administration's censors.
In addition to being dubbed in Mandarin, it must first be approved by the state radio, film and television administration, which censors content deemed politically sensitive.
