Editor’s Note: The United States Government continues to erect huge walls of secrecy (in the name National Security and its endless war on terror), preventing the public from (among other things) exercising our right to know about issues that affect our health and safety. Glen Milner has been a constant advocate for our right to know, and won a significant victory in the US Supreme Court in 2011 – Milner v. Department of the Navy. Milner had requested (through FOIA) explosives data and maps to determine the risk to neighbors of a Navy munitions storage depot in case of an accident involving explosives […]
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When Public Safety and “National Security” Clash
Editor’s Note: The following article published in the Kitsap Sun on October 24th highlights the continuing struggle to guarantee the public’s right to know of potential hazards to our communities, our homes and our families. The government (and in this case the Navy) regularly overreaches in invoking “national security” in withholding records that affect the safety and health of citizens living around government facilities – in this case the naval base with the largest operational concentration of nuclear weapons in the US arsenal, Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor. Glen Milner, who is at the forefront of Ground Zero’s lawsuit challenging the Navy’s grossly deficient […]
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