arcticpenguin
22nd March 2003, 01:50 PM
http://www.aps.org/WN/
Bob Park says:
SECRECY: BUSH POLICY RETURNS TO "WHEN IN DOUBT, CLASSIFY."
Faced with a mountain of classified documents created in the Reagan years, President Clinton issued an order in 1995 requiring automatic declassification of most documents after 25 years and directing that nothing be classified unless the need for secrecy is perfectly clear. The draft of a new executive order being circulated among federal agencies makes classification once again the default position and postpones automatic declassification to 2007. Every government seeks the power to keep whatever it wants secret. Bad news is kept secret, while good news is leaked.
Bob Park says:
SECRECY: BUSH POLICY RETURNS TO "WHEN IN DOUBT, CLASSIFY."
Faced with a mountain of classified documents created in the Reagan years, President Clinton issued an order in 1995 requiring automatic declassification of most documents after 25 years and directing that nothing be classified unless the need for secrecy is perfectly clear. The draft of a new executive order being circulated among federal agencies makes classification once again the default position and postpones automatic declassification to 2007. Every government seeks the power to keep whatever it wants secret. Bad news is kept secret, while good news is leaked.