One of the problems on access to information here, regardless of the political stripe, I might add, is that security and privacy is always used as an angle by whatever government is in charge in case there is something that might complicate their life or show what's really happening, and it is prevented from being made public.
Are you seeing any of that as a problem in the United States? There is a huge effort many times to use security and privacy, I believe, as an excuse to not allowing that information to get out into the public.