John Cornyn, once a FOIA supporter, now seeks to hasten its demise.

Aug. 7, 2006 -- On July 17, WMR reported that the Pentagon is paying Dr. Jeffrey Addicott's St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas, the million dollars to find out new ways for the federal government to classify previously open government information in the name of protecting it from access by 'terrorists.'" Under a contract that is yet to be signed, Addicott, a former Pentagon counsel to the US Special Forces, will research ways to curtail the federal and individual state freedom of information and open government laws. WMR has learned that the money for Addicott was earmarked in the defense appropriations bill by Texas Senator John Cornyn, a graduate of the St. Mary's law school.

John Cornyn, once a FOIA supporter, now seeks to hasten its demise.

Cornyn, a strong Bush loyalist, has flipped 180 degrees from past support for increasing the strength of the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). In March 2005, Cornyn and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced the "Faster FOIA Act," a bill that would have created a sixteen-member advisory commission tasked with suggesting ways to decrease delays in the processing of FOIA requests.

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