| Scoobes said: Only facts matter... ironic statement considering we're talking about the Trump administration. You may want to check your own public access policies. There are public policies in the US regarding access to federal funded research. NIH for instance makes all biomedical papers that have been funded either wholly or partially by them be deposited in Pubmed Central 6 months after publication so they can be freely viewed by anyone. You're also forgetting the Freedom of Information Act which would apply in many cases here. Those are the facts. |
FOIA only applies if you're making a request, it doesn't give government agency employees the right to openly communicate with the public about internal affairs ... (And even then they can arbitrarily refuse the request under some vaguely worded exemptions)
Again no guarantee that you will have access to these records ...
Just because an agency is publicly funded doesn't mean the citizens have a mandate on it's information ...
