. >> and foya, which is actually the bright spot, i wanted to mention to you, federal foya, we were able, with the help of a lot of your employers and your colleagues and nonprofits and other good government folks, we were able to get some amendments to it since 1970, whoever the incoming attorney general is when there's a change in parties, they send out a memo interpreting the freedom of information act. saying, when you have the opportunity to make a discretionary release, i want you to consider these things when you release it. sent out a memo, if you have an opportunity to make a discretionary release, release it -- unless you can see there's a foreseeable harm. george bush and john ash craft came in and they flipped it. they said, if you can come up with a reason, particularly of privacy or national security reason to withhold something under discretionary release, withhold it. obama came in and on day one of his presidency said, went back to, essentially, to the clinton standard, so all of the agencies are required -- were required to abide by this attorney general guideline on ho

. >> and foya, which is actually the bright spot, i wanted to mention to you, federal foya, we were able, with the help of a lot of your employers and your colleagues and nonprofits and other good government folks, we were able to get some amendments to it since 1970, whoever the incoming attorney general is when there's a change in parties, they send out a memo interpreting the freedom of information act. saying, when you have the opportunity to make a discretionary release, i want you to consider these things when you release it. sent out a memo, if you have an opportunity to make a discretionary release, release it -- unless you can see there's a foreseeable harm. george bush and john ash craft came in and they flipped it. they said, if you can come up with a reason, particularly of privacy or national security reason to withhold something under discretionary release, withhold it. obama came in and on day one of his presidency said, went back to, essentially, to the clinton standard, so all of the agencies are required -- were required to abide by this attorney general guideline on ho

in the state of michigan the government is exempt from foya. we need answers. i hope the attorney general continues this pursuit all the way up to the top, so we can get the answers the people of flint deserve. >> on the grounds in flint, we have been following the progress in terms of replacing lead service lines that go into people's homes. we follow the progress of the $1 stept million bill, which may have relief for flint in terms of trying to heal, fix itself, to get safe watt to people now more than two years after this crisis started. what itself the status of the door-to-door bottle of water delivery in the city and what proportion of the city is able drink their water safely at this point in. >> well, i don't think any proportion of the city by any standard can drink it safely. because you have to have a filler. and the idea that you are putting the honus on the residents to make sure that filter is installed correctly is just incredible to me. the state has fought efforts to deliver that water. they just went to court to try to get out of that respons

changes in the freedom of information act requires us to release some drafts that are responsive to foya reques foia requests." you did it by statutes. you can do it to the classification system and i recommend the detailed list of recommendations in the back of this extraordinary report, the moynihan come bes report for how you can do that. you can build in cost benefit into the originating classification decision. you can build in assessments of what's the rell risk? what's the real vulnerability? what's the freedom of cost to the public and efficient government operations from classifying? you can do that on the front end. you can build in a declassification board with power to release so you get a rational declassification system on the back end so the system doesn't get completely gummed up with unnecessary secrets, you can move those 50% to 90% of what shouldn't be secret out to the public. you can do that but you have to do it by statute. as bill leonard says, the government is not going to fix itself. you have to do it. my third point is just don't believe them on classification.