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SOURCE: Editorial Staff // Fort-Worth Star Telegram

31 Dec 2007 // When the federal Freedom of Information Act finally won overwhelming support in Congress 41 years ago, it reflected, an Illinois congressman said, that Americans had become aware of "the threat involved in government secrecy" because of a "continuing tendency toward managed news and suppression of public information that the people are entitled to have."

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