{"id":1736,"date":"2005-09-05T00:04:26","date_gmt":"2005-09-05T00:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2005-09-05T00:04:26","modified_gmt":"2005-09-05T00:04:26","slug":"cost_of_governm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1736","title":{"rendered":"Cost of Government Secrecy Continues to Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openthegovernment.org\/otg\/SRC2005_embargoed.pdf\">www.opengovernment.org<\/a> (PDF):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The government is withholding more information than ever from the public and expanding ways of shrouding data. Last year, federal agencies spent a record $148 creating and storing new secrets for each $1 spent declassifying old secrets, a coalition of watchdog groups reported Saturday. That&#8217;s a $28 jump from 2003 when $120 was spent to keep secrets for every $1 spent revealing them.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Slashdot <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/yro\/05\/09\/04\/208227.shtml?tid=158&#038;tid=219\">discussion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.opengovernment.org (PDF): The government is withholding more information than ever from the public and expanding ways of shrouding data. Last year, federal agencies spent a record $148 creating and storing new secrets for each $1 spent declassifying old secrets, a coalition of watchdog groups reported Saturday. That&#8217;s a $28 jump from 2003 when $120 was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}