Monday, September 1, 2014

Brian Hendrix asked how can I be so sure?



Why am I so sure? What makes me so sure that reclassifying of declassified documents, in other words making them secret again is not happening now? Because I pay attention to this.

A lot of people would be complaining about it, that’s how.  NARA itself would complain about this. The presidential libraries would be complaining about this.  The Federation of American Scientists would be complaining about this. The National Security Archive would be complaining about this. The Amerian Historical Association would be complaining about this. The State Department folks involved with the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) would be complaining about this.  The Society of American Archivists would be complaining about this. The National Declassification Center would be complaining about this 

A lot of people would be complaining about this.  And they’re not.  If it was happening today all of the above groups and agencies would be complaining about it so loudly I'd hear about it.

President George W. Bush's Executive Order 13292 ammended Clinton’s Executive order 12958.  

Wikipedia says, "Executive Order 12958 and the amendments incorporated into it, including Executive Order 13292 were revoked by President Barak Obama in the issuance of Executive Order 13526.  That E.O. created The National Declassification Center."

Folks, it's not happening today.   

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