clipped from: www.tomdispatch.com The removal of documents en masse, the denial of access to the public, the classification of everything -- these are signs of a now seven-year-long shutting off of the flow of unsupervised information. But perhaps nothing has been as crucial as the shutting down that Ruth Rosen, former columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and author of the groundbreaking book The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America (recently updated), considers below under the rubric: "soft crimes" of the Bush administration. Tom