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Heavy water

Martin Rosenbaum | 17:25 UK time, Tuesday, 28 August 2007

The risk of a terrorist attack was wrongly used by the Scottish Executive as an excuse to keep information about radioactive contamination of drinking water secret.

The story to justify this rather striking intro appeared in the latest .

Reading the Scottish Information Commissioner's heavy criticism of the Executive may resonate with anyone who feels they have experienced a public authority trying to scrape some extreme factors into a refusal to supply information.

The freedom of information request in this case was made by Rob Edwards, a freelance journalist who has made much use of FOI. He keeps an interesting list of his FOI requests and their outcomes on .

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Hi Martin,

Many thanks for highlighting my story. For anyone who is interested, the 30 plus stories I have written using FoI are also .

Rob

Hello Martin - this is the story we put up today about Rob's request.


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