"I've certainly advocated declassification."

Tim Cavanaugh | February 15, 2006

That's Dick Cheney on Fox.

To get an idea of how courageously Cheney has advocated declassification, check out Matt Welch's coverage here, here, here, and here. (That's just for starters.)

Comments

Matt|2.15.06 @ 7:09PM|#

Declassified pages have gone down under Bush at least in part because there was Clinton-era reform that made millions upon millions of pages declassifiable for the first time, and other than biographical sketches of Augusto Pinochet, you can only declassify them once; and classification decisions have gone up at least in part because of the ubiquity of email and other less structured means of written communication. More here.

|2.15.06 @ 7:34PM|#

Oh Matt, SURELY this administration can figure out how to declassify documents twice. A little creativity, please!