New Declassification Process To Open 400 Million Pages of Records

linzeal writes "The newly minted National Declassification Center has been tasked by President Obama with eliminating the backlog of more than 400 million pages of classified records that are more than 25 years old by the end of 2013. The National Archives has prepared a draft prioritization plan to guide its declassification activities, and has invited public input on the plan. A public forum on the subject will be held on June 23. This may be a bonanza for the community of historians and intelligence buffs who have been left without significant source material to work with, in some cases since WWII, especially in terms of any information on cryptography, image analysis, and espionage."

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Re:ya right

[DerekLyons]

Does anyone on /. honest believe anything seriously juicy or even particularly interesting would *ever* be released to the public.

That depends on your definition of interesting. There's lots of material that is still classified that would never make the evening news when it's released, but which would be of considerable interest to historians, economists, engineers, geeks, etc... etc...
 
Just because it doesn't cause a scandal doesn't mean it's not important or interesting.

Copyright vs Classified

[Bert64]

Isn't it wrong when copyrighted material is protected longer than classified government secrets...