Whitehall 'shredding more files' (UK gov destroys evidence)

[Pert_UK]

"Civil servants have drastically stepped up the shredding of official documents, figures compiled by the Tories suggest. Some government departments had doubled the number of documents being shredded ahead of the Freedom of Information Act's implementation on 1 January...

The Freedom of Information Act will for the first time give members of the public access to government records previously kept secret for 30 years...

From a series of parliamentary answers Dr Julian Lewis, the Conservative spokesman for the Cabinet Office, says he has discovered a huge acceleration in shredding...

Earlier this week, Mr Thomas said he was looking into Cabinet Office orders telling staff to delete e-mails more than three months old. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4119823.stm

I don't know whether to be worried about this or not....I mean, if nobody managed to find the faxes or phone records in the Blunkett investigation, it sounds to me like the government has ALWAYS destroyed anything that might be used against it.....

How ironic that the Freedom of Information Act, brought in by the government to increase openness, has inspired them to destroy anything that might be dodgy....

[truthisfreedom]

1. bushco is the "great teacher" of corrupt governments everywhere.

they do it first, and the type is cast.

[emad]

2. WHY and WHO?

WHY and WHAT? Howabout:


From top left: Ken Livingstone, Roberto Calvi, Sir John Bond, Larry Silverstein, Robert Maxwell, General Sir Michael Jackson, Cherry Bush, Shrub, Geoff Hoon, Ian Huntley........