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December 27, 2006

Jacob Sullum tries to uncover a few last government secrets before they're all successfully locked away.

Comments

Sam Franklin|12.27.06 @ 8:27AM|#

I thought maybe he did a FOIA. Guess not. Ho hum.

Guy Montag|12.27.06 @ 8:30AM|#

So we may finally have the official truth about that ridiculous Liberal myth some call the moon?

Sam Franklin|12.27.06 @ 9:43AM|#

I'd settle for some truth about Waco or the Oklahoma City bombing. But there are plenty of truly suspicious government behaviors to choose from.

If I were a journalist like Big J in The Big D, I would choose Flight 93 for my "journalist subpoena's." I don't think that is a partisan issue so much as the paradigm case of this needless government secrecy Sullum is decrying in mere article form here.

|12.27.06 @ 10:35AM|#

A slight threadjack, but given that Wako has already been mentioned...

You have to check this out (via boingboing)

http://www.boingboing.net/images/NR-F8_PERILFINAL.pdf

Warren|12.27.06 @ 11:04AM|#

They can thank not only President Bill Clinton, who signed the 1995 executive order establishing the declassification policy, but also President George W. Bush, who followed through on it.

Cudos should also be extended to the last American statesman; Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moynihan_Commission_on_Government_Secrecy

Reason's excellent review, critiquing the now late senator, appears to have been buried with the old squirrels. Fortunately, I found a copy here:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1568/is_6_32/ai_66810355