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Are you a state agency worried that your state “open government” laws are making it hard to hide stuff from the public, from Freedom of Information Act requests, and from other nosy nellies who have the audacity to keep an eye on what sort of a job you’re doing? Easy-peasy — just work with the Federal Government at a “Fusion” Center<\/a>, which combines their Super-Secret Federal Government Stuff with your State Stuff … then push for a law to exempt your Fusion Center State Stuff from any sort of review, FOIA requests, or other state open government rules. The Feds will be glad <\/em>to help …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you a state agency worried that your state “open government” laws are making it hard to hide stuff from the public, from Freedom of Information Act requests, and from…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13320,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/22\/too_many_secrets_marty_3.html","url_meta":{"origin":12563,"position":0},"title":"“Too many secrets, Marty”","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 22-Jan-09 10:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"People who have information tend to horde it. 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