Word: krug
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Krug said Reagan did not trust the American public with information and charged that his Administration has tried to limit the Freedom of Information Act, which gives citizens the right to obtain a wide variety of government documents, including many controversial ones...
...Krug said Americans' right to governmentinformation has suffered because of a NationalSecurity Decision Directive issued in 1983. Theorder would have required any U.S. official toobtain government permission before publishinginformation that might be classified...
Although the directive was blocked by theSenate and dropped from the Administration agendain 1984, Krug said that as of December 1986, morethan 3 million people were still under thepre-publication scrutiny originally that the orderwould have required...
...Library Awareness Program" sponsored by theFederal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) also drewconsiderable opposition from the ALA. Krug saidthe agency had asked librarians to supply names offoreign users and the titles of library materialsthey used, citing a need to avoid "potential harm tonational security...
...Such incursions into libraries violate rightsof citizens," Krug said. "Libraries and librariansare not extensions of role-enforcing agencies. Weare a public interest agency...