U.S. Reclassifies Many Documents in Secret Review

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject: U.S. Reclassifies Many Documents in Secret Review
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:14:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris Hodge <hodge () sunsite utk edu>
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>


http://nytimes.com/2006/02/21/politics/21reclassify.html?ei=5094&en=aefb4d8fc1e315bc&hp=&ex=1140584400&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20
 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agencies have been removing from public access thousands of historical
documents that were available for years, including some already published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documents he had copied years ago had been withdrawn from the archives'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.


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