S. HRG. 98-699

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REFORM ACT

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

S. 774

A BILL ENTITLED "THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REFORM ACT"

31-251 O

APRIL 18 AND 21, 1983

Serial No. J-98-31

Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1984

CONTENTS

STATEMENTS OF MEMBERS

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Hatch, Hon. Orrin G., a U.S. Senator from the State of Utah, chairman,

Subcommittee on the Constitution.

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Thurmond, Hon. Strom, a U.S. Senator from the State of South Carolina,

chairman, Committee on the Judiciary.

Leahy, Hon. Patrick J., a U.S. Senator from the State of Vermont.

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PROPOSED LEGISLATION

S. 774, a bill entitled "The Freedom of Information Reform Act".

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

APRIL 18, 1983

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Rose, Jonathan C., Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Policy, U.S.

Department of Justice.......

Rowe, Charles S., editor and copublisher, Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Va

Taft, William H., IV, General Counsel, U.S. Department of Defense.....

Claybrook, Joan, president, Public Citizen, Inc., accompanied by Sidney Wolf,

director, Health Research Group, Public Citizens, Inc., and Kathy Meyer,

counsel, Public Citizen, Inc

O'Reilly, James T., senior counsel, Procter & Gamble, Co.................

APRIL 21, 1983

Webster, Hon. William H., Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Lewis, Robert, national treasurer, and chairman, Freedom of Information

Committee, Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, and Wash-

ington correspondent, Newhouse News Service, accompanied by Bruce W.

Sanford, first amendment counsel, Society of Professional Journalists.....

Adler, Allan R., counsel, Center for National Security Studies, on behalf of

the American Civil Liberties Union; and Page Putnam Miller, director,

National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History.....

ALPHABETICAL LISTING AND MATERIAL SUBMITTED

Adler, Allan R.:

Testimony.

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Hatch, Hon. Orrin G., prepared statement of the General Electric Co......

Leahy, Hon. Patrick: Methodological Assessment of the Drug Enforcement

Administration's Report, the Effect of the Freedom of Information Act on

DEA Investigations..

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