IP: Re: watchdog group listing government information removed frompublic access

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:38:42 -0500
> From: "William Friedman" <FRIEDMAN () law duke edu>
>
> For IP--On Friday I contacted the USGS in Washington to obtain a topo
> map of my own property.  I sought to use a computer-based kiosk that
> prints maps on the spot that I had used previously at a USGS satellite
> office.  I was told the kiosk is no longer available to the public, "in
> part" because of September 11.
>
> I went to LL Bean (on Friday after Thanksgiving), and used the kiosk
> bearing both a National Geographic and USGS logo, to obtain the same
> map.  I don't know which scared me more: the government's refusal to let
> me use its kiosk or the shoppers on Friday.


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