A shot in Congress' arm.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Buck, Amanda
- Source
- News Media & the Law. Winter2006, Vol. 30 Issue 1, p22-23. 2p.
- Subject
- *OFFICIAL secrets
*CONFIDENTIAL communications
*FREEDOM of information
*ACCESS to information
- Language
- ISSN
- 0149-0737
The article examines the secrecy provisions of the Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act proposed by Senator Richard Burr in the U.S. in 2005. The bill would exclude the entire Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency from the Freedom of Information and Federal Advisory Committee acts. Exemption 3 of the Freedom of Information Act which bars public release of information deemed exempt in another area of federal law can be used to classify sensitive documents.