Aside from the general access statute, various forms of special legislation govern GAO's access to certain types of agency records and information, such as tax, social security, financial institution, and employee benefit plan records and information.
GAO controls the flow of information within the tother state departments too. 
mnli hypothesis: GAO controls the flow of information within the tother state departments too.  premise: Aside from the general access statute, various forms of special legislation govern GAO's access to certain types of agency records and information, such as tax, social security, financial institution, and employee benefit plan records and information.