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Thread ID: 5832 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2003-03-26
2003-03-26 09:20 | User Profile
From The Associated Press, available online at: [url=http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20030325_1960.html]http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap2003...30325_1960.html[/url]
**Bush Orders Delay in Declassifying Papers **
March 25, 2003
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush issued an executive order Monday that will delay the release of millions of historical documents for more than three years and make it easier to reclassify information that could damage national security.
Bush signed the 25-page order three weeks before the government's April 17 deadline for declassifying millions of documents 25 years or older. Amending a less restrictive order signed by President Clinton, Bush's action gives agencies until 2006 to release the documents.
The documents in question encompass a wide gamut of national security decision-making, from military records to diplomatic documents.
In addition, the order makes it easier for the government to reclassify sensitive information if an agency determines it is in the interest of national security. The reclassification provision applies to documents between 10 and 25 years old, which would include periods in which Bush's father served as president and vice president, the White House said.
The order says that information provided in confidence by a foreign government is presumed classified. Under the Clinton order, this type of information was kept classified or declassified on a case-by-case basis.
2003-03-26 12:17 | User Profile
When will the Americans rise up and demand that our elected leaders stop using Gestapo tatics and Orwellian actions that are making us 21st century slaves.