U.S. Reclassifies Many Documents in Secret Review

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

What the hell is going on here?

Scott Shane writes in The New York Times:

[snip]

In a seven-year-old secret program at the National Archives, intelligence agencies have been removing from public 
access thousands of historical documents that were available for years, including some already published by the State 
Department and others photocopied years ago by private historians.

The restoration of classified status to more than 55,000 previously declassified pages began in 1999, when the Central 
Intelligence Agency and five other agencies objected to what they saw as a hasty release of sensitive information after 
a 1995 declassification order signed by President Bill Clinton. It accelerated after the Bush administration took 
office and especially after the 2001 terrorist attacks, according to archives records.

But because the reclassification program is itself shrouded in secrecy — governed by a still-classified memorandum that 
prohibits the National Archives even from saying which agencies are involved — it continued virtually without outside 
notice until December. That was when an intelligence historian, Matthew M. Aid, noticed that dozens of documents he had 
copied years ago had been withdrawn from the archives' open shelves.

[snip]

Much more here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/politics/21reclassify.html

- ferg


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 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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