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Improving Declassification: A Report To The President From The Public Interest Declassification Board - A Review With Commentary, Bill Sleeman
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This article examines the December 2008 report of the Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB) with a particular focus on the impact of the recommendations for improving access to classified information and comparing the report to past efforts at reforming the declassification process.
Now You See It, Now You Don’T—Nara’S Response To Reclassification: A Summary With Commentary, Bill Sleeman
Now You See It, Now You Don’T—Nara’S Response To Reclassification: A Summary With Commentary, Bill Sleeman
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In a New York Times article published in February 2006 journalist Scott Shane drew attention to a little-known document “reclassification" project then underway at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). While the reclassification program conducted by a number of military and civilian intelligence agencies began during the closing year of the Clinton administration, the program, like so many other changes in access to government information, had grown dramatically since 9/11. Responding the public and congressional pressure resulting from the news story Archivist of the United States, Allen Weinstein, temporarily halted the program and called for a review of the …