Text of the actual order.
Am I the only one excited about this?
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Topic started on 29-12-2009 @ 11:14 PM by links234
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The meat and potatoes of it...
The meat and potatoes of it...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday ordered the federal government to rethink how it protects the nation's secrets, in a move that was expected to declassify more than 400 million pages of Cold War-era documents and curb the number of government records hidden from the public.
Among the changes is a requirement that every record be released eventually and that federal agencies review how and why they mark documents classified or deny the release of historical records. A National Declassification Center at the National Archives will be established to assist them and help clear a backlog of the Cold War records by Dec. 31, 2013.
Obama also reversed a decision by President George W. Bush that had allowed the intelligence community to block the release of a specific document, even if an interagency panel decided the information wouldn't harm national security.
Advocates for a more open government are cautiously cheering the move.
"Everything will depend on implementation," said Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists. But the order "has tremendous potential to reduce the level of secrecy throughout the government."
reply posted on 3-1-2010 @ 03:09 AM by jam321
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I'm sure it will lead to some interesting stuff.
But I anticipate most of the good stuff will be blackened out. Gives them 3 years to do so.
I'm sure it will lead to some interesting stuff.
But I anticipate most of the good stuff will be blackened out. Gives them 3 years to do so.
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