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Cost of Secrecy Continues to Increase

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the saving-you-from-yourself dept.

xerid writes "The Associated Press is running an article about the increasing costs of government secrecy. The information stems from a report (PDF Warning) posted at OpenTheGovernment.org. From the article: 'The government is withholding more information than ever from the public and expanding ways of shrouding data. Last year, federal agencies spent a record $148 creating and storing new secrets for each $1 spent declassifying old secrets, a coalition of watchdog groups reported Saturday. That's a $28 jump from 2003 when $120 was spent to keep secrets for every $1 spent revealing them.'"

4 of 213 comments (clear)

  1. Where's Zonk? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Where's Zonk? Where's my fucking gamer fanboy story?

  2. Re:selling secrets by ErikPeterson · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Troll? Failbait? who gave Bill Clinton Modpoints.....

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  3. mod uP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    char8el hous3.

  4. ok, What's in Area 51 at Roswell?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The header says it all.