If the Navy is successful, it could set a very dangerous precedent for other agencies to withhold federal scientific and environmental information from the public, by letting agencies invoke unsubstantiated national security concerns.
said Angela Canterbury, POGO’s director of public policy, concerning a letter POGO received today that says the Department of Navy may be putting pressure on another government agency to stymie its release of secret information related to the water contamination scandal at Camp Lejeune.
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