Dumpster Diving
Dec 21st, 2006 at 12:34 pm by Susie
Ezra puts a little something in our Christmas stocking:
In a fairly cool story, The New York Times reports that when the clock strikes midnight on December 31st, hundreds of millions of classified government documents will instantly enter the public sphere, including 275 million from the FBI alone. Indeed, the documents, whose quarter century (or more) of secrecy has now ended, will shed enormous light on everything from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Vietnam War to the Soviet espionage network. Should be fun stuff for the historians. An interesting sidenote here is the secrecy-obsessed Bush administration didn’t block or eliminate this declassification. They could’ve, given that it was a Clinton initiative and subject to executive review, but they’re letting it go through. Good for them.
now that I think about it makes sense: people will waste time delving through these old documents, meaning less time spent delving into BushCo’s dealings. And if anything interesting surfaces, you can be sure the freepi will say, “see, they ALL did it…”