Ethics

My FOIA Lawsuit

By Ed Brayton

Since I've just spent the day talking about it, I just realized that I don't think I've ever said here what happened with my FOIA lawsuit, so here's a tease. Just before the election, the Bush administration caved in and gave us the document we wanted. I now have a copy of the WTO settlement that was signed between the US Trade Representative and the European Union. There was just one problem: it was pretty much meaningless gibberish to me.

The document consisted of a table that showed various subsections of the WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), all of which are part of what is called a "schedule of commitments" that determines what types of businesses and industries are open to foreign companies and what types are not. Each subsection listed then had a series of numbers and statements.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 13, 2009 (boomark / email).