Clinton hackeresque time bomb: Millions of documents declassified New Year's Eve

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Clinton hackeresque time bomb: Millions of documents declassified New Year's Eve

President4242

Thu Dec 28 10:38:12 -0800 2006

Politics.

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Thanks to Executive Order 12958, millions of secret government documents 25 years old or more will be declassified at midnight, December 31, 2006.

Apparently this has been going on for 6 years or so, thanks to a Clinton-era executive order that started declassifying materiels 25 years or older in 2000. Exceptions exist- you're not going to see, say, the strategic plans for the 1980 invasion of Iran, nor are you going to see anything dangerous to current agents or anything that affects more than one agency. Agencies can also file to keep specific documents secret. The FBI, CIA, and NSA requested a few two-year extensions to the 2000 deadline (because they didn't have the manpower to review the documents to decide which to declassify), but the Bush Administration has now told them they're out of time, and so are releasing HUGE volumes of paper this year: The FBI alone will be declassifying 270 million pages. The NSA is declassifying at least 35 million.

Word to deeply embedded spies:

AB3A

Thu Dec 28 11:09:37 -0800 2006
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Don't do anything that takes more than 20 years to finish. You never know if your file got misplaced in the NSA somehow...

that may be so...

zogger

Thu Dec 28 14:18:19 -0800 2006
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...when it doesn't matter that they can either lose or redact out anything they want with total impunity in order to cover up high crimes, low crimes, mid level crimes and misdemeanors. Conversely, they can also fabricate documents and other sorts of evidence at will to fit an agenda, all the way to going to war on false pretenses. Witness the phony tonkin gulf statements, not a single high level liar has gone to jail over that yet. TWA 800 and their official explanation? Total pack of lies. There's a lot more, too, a lot more.

Now don't get me all wrong, it is a good thing they are doing this, releasing documents, I would just feel better if there was any way to force honesty back into government. Dang %&*((*&^ voting sure don't do it.

Clinton hackeresque time bomb: Millions of documents declassified New Year's Eve

Smokin Juan

Thu Dec 28 16:03:39 -0800 2006
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Everywhere I've seen this posted people seem to be excited about the military aspect.

I'm wondering if it'll have any bearing on the Disclosure Project.

... and a Google video with more info.

Clinton hackeresque time bomb: Millions of documents declassified New Year's Eve

Spider

Fri Dec 29 23:17:27 -0800 2006
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Had a look at the Disclosure Project video..... interesting but got to think could something like that be kept "hidden" all these years. Still think that some of the possible more interesting documents to be "declassified" will have been edited. All large security (national or private) organisations will have tons of "bumf" collected over many years. The "bumf" you will see the real interesting stuff you wont.

Clinton hackeresque time bomb: Millions of documents declassified New Year's Eve

roger gonnet

Sat Dec 30 00:02:34 -0800 2006
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Do you know if the declassification will touch the IRS documents?

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