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February 21, 2006
Declassified documents ... reclassifed.
The Bush administration has called for the reclassification of thousands of pages of declassified documents, Melissa Block of NPR reports. Some are calling it a senseless reclassification of documents.
Essentially, information once considered sensitive, such as an intelligence operation to leaflet Eastern Europe from a hot-air balloon, were declassified because the information no longer justified the cost of maintaining secrecy, according to Thomas Blanton, Director of the National Security Archives at George Washington University.
Now those documents are being removed from the public shelves of the National Archives.
Posted by Nicole Duarte at February 21, 2006 04:21 PM
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