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U.S. Mass Declassified Documents At Midnight
Alchemist253 writes "Advocates of open government have another reason to celebrate New Year 2007: at midnight hundreds of millions of U.S. government documents that were classified more than 25 years ago got automatically declassified. Various agencies have applied for exemptions for specific documents, but nonetheless there should be a release of a number of interesting papers." From the article: "'It is going to take a generation for scholars to go through the material declassified under this process,' said Steven Aftergood, who runs a project on government secrecy for the Federation of American Scientists."
torrent plz...!!
They're intelligence documents, fucknut. We're doing a lot broader swath of intelligence. Anything that can compromise an intelligence source (that means get them killed) is classified. All information derivated from a classified document is also classified unless declassified. Now, why the explosion in numbers? Have you heard of computers? They make the creation of documents a lot faster. Now we can create a classified document in the matter of seconds, by forwarding an email message. Go fuck yourself.