US Gov't Declassifies File from 1809

The U.S. National Security Agency declassified a 202 year-old file today titled Cryptology: Instruction Book on the Art of Secret Writing. The NSA said the release was realization of Barack Obama’s “Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government.” (And, certainly, the declassification was unquestionably progressive in its championship of transparency at the risk of alienating key allies such as Prussia, Siam or the Ottoman Empire.)

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Reasonable because nations such as Prussia, Siam and the Ottoman Empire do not exist anymore

Originally posted by starwarsisreal
Reasonable because nations such as Prussia, Siam and the Ottoman Empire do not exist anymore

How clever of you to solve the mystery of the article writer's sarcasm.

Beseech thee, citizen, thy threade sayeth true. John Adams' secrets hath gaineth light, thee truthe emergeth that hith son, John Quincy, maketh fromth thy mistress for thy hideth no longer.

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Sometimes it is hard to see the sarcasm in the printed word....

just think of the field day people will have

when 200 year old documents of the bush and obama adminstrations are declassified.

i wonder how many "i told you so" and "gotcha" will come out

or how many "man they sure were stupid back then"

Originally posted by starwarsisreal
Reasonable because nations such as Prussia, Siam and the Ottoman Empire do not exist anymore

So Obama releases files of a Nazi that wanted to shake National Socialist resurgence???
Hmmm.... Interesting...

Originally posted by ModernAcademia
So Obama releases files of a Nazi that wanted to shake National Socialist resurgence???
Hmmm.... Interesting...

Huh? Are you in the right thread?

Originally posted by neo96
just think of the field day people will have

when 200 year old documents of the bush and obama adminstrations are declassified.

i wonder how many "i told you so" and "gotcha" will come out

or how many "man they sure were stupid back then"

How much you want to bet that they all do not get "lost"? See you in 200 years to collect.

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Two words that should never be in the same sentence:

Obama. Transparency.

At least they are still around to declassify. I recently found out lots of files are destroyed after 25 years. A person is supposed to go through the file and then decide whether to keep it.

It would be far cheaper today just to scan the file then to have someone look at it.

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lol

second line