Clear Instance Of The Patriot Act Fraud Making Us Less Safe

Dam Inspection Data Withheld From Press Under Patriot Act

"NEW YORK News outlets seeking inspection and safety data on local dams, in light off the recent string of floods in the Midwest, have been stonewalled by government officials who have withheld such data as part of the Patriot Act, according to Investigative Reporters and Editors.
IRE Data Base Library Director Jeremy Milarsky, who oversees the group's handling of data requests from news organizations, said at least a dozen news outlets requested such background data on dam inspections from IRE in the last week. He said that is up from the usual three or four in any given year.
Such information, however, has been unavailable since 2002, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began rejecting such requests as part of a U.S. Patriot Act stipulation.
"Among other things, the data included when each dam was last inspected, whether there was an evacuation plan for the area, and whether there was populated area close to the dam that would be impacted," Milarsky said. "It is basically a list of dams with information about how safe the dams were."

The fascists invent the terrorist bogeyman to justify their torture loving police state, then withhold vital information about real threats to public safety because of their lies, meanwhile keeping the public unaware of how rotten the infrastructure is due to their war expenditure swindle.

Does anybody wonder why people cheer when they see the white house get blown up in the movie "Independence Day"?