Mark Tapscott over at Heritage makes a great case for the need for real-time oversight of Katrina spending money. Oversight and investigations are critical in situations like this…but they are also after the fact, which means the damage is usually done before we even know about it. Tapscott’s recommendation? Go to Big Daddy FOIA:
“[President] Bush should announce
now that he wants the FOIA applied in advance to all documents for Katrina
recovery programs by making them public via the Internet as soon as a spending
order, requisition, contract or other authorization is approved and government
funds are disbursed.”
And now that FEMA plans to re-bid more than $1 billion in contracts now’s the time for the president to lay the smackdown on any would be wrongdoers, and get Big Daddy FOIA rolling.
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