The Trump Administration Quietly Gave CBP More Power to Conceal Information
The Trump Administration Quietly Gave CBP More Power to Conceal Information
The Trump administration continued to push back against public transparency requirements on Friday by re-classifying the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency as a “security agency,” which will exempt the organization charged with patrolling the nation’s borders from a disclosing a certain records to the public upon request.
In a Jan. 31 memo obtained by The Nation, CBP Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan specifically notes that the agency’s new designation will enable it to conceal more information, placing it in the rarified company of organizations like the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Secret Service.
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