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Title: U.S. government secrecy reaches historic highs.
Post by: Rictor on July 04, 2005, 07:53:11 am

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2002356455_files03.html

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WASHINGTON — Government secrecy has reached a historic high by several measures, with federal departments classifying documents at the rate of 125 a minute as they create categories of semisecrets bearing vague labels such as "sensitive security information."

A record 15.6 million documents were classified last year, nearly double the number in 2001, according to the federal Information Security Oversight Office. Meanwhile, declassification, which made millions of historical documents available annually in the 1990s, has slowed to a relative crawl, from a high of 204 million pages in 1997 to 28 million pages last year.

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Post by: Turnsky on July 04, 2005, 08:02:03 am

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Originally posted by Rictor
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2002356455_files03.html

 

ah, the US government secret-keeping remains very much alive..

so many skeletons in the closet, that's what the pentegon was originally built for. :p

Title: U.S. government secrecy reaches historic highs.
Post by: Nico on July 04, 2005, 08:07:28 am

16.6 million diocuments 0o
Are they classifying the budget for toilet paper too?

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Post by: karajorma on July 04, 2005, 10:00:56 am

Not just budget. Sounds like they're classifying the individual pieces of toilet paper too :D

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Post by: Ford Prefect on July 04, 2005, 11:27:59 am

This spike probably just corresponds to Ashcroft's old porn collection that he left lying around.

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Post by: Janos on July 04, 2005, 11:30:21 am

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Originally posted by Ford Prefect
This spike probably just corresponds to Ashcroft's old porn collection that he left lying around.

That information really wants to be free.

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Post by: Flipside on July 04, 2005, 12:11:12 pm

Given the average governments performance in just about every other area, how comes they are so good at covering stuff up?

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Post by: InfernoGod on July 04, 2005, 01:25:22 pm

It's just because the shadow government is planning to take over soon, no worries :D.

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Post by: Hippo on July 04, 2005, 01:47:28 pm

They get a lot of practice covering up their mistakes :D

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Post by: InfernoGod on July 04, 2005, 01:51:34 pm

I mean, come on, without practice, how else would they have covered up their own assassination of Kenedy? I think that's got 2 n's.

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Post by: Grug on July 04, 2005, 02:26:08 pm

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Originally posted by Flipside
Given the average governments performance in just about every other area, how comes they are so good at covering stuff up?

The public front is just a puppet man. Seriously, just look at the Bush family... :wtf:

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Post by: deep_eyes on July 04, 2005, 08:04:02 pm

heh this must relate to the BUSH AGENDA! aha! we have you now you republican..........um......................... YEA!

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Post by: vyper on July 04, 2005, 08:11:18 pm

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Originally posted by InfernoGod
It's just because the shadow government is planning to take over soon, no worries :D.

I know the date is set, I've forgotten it though! *goes to find X-Files tapes*

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Post by: Kosh on July 05, 2005, 12:31:25 am

This all fits the trend. Restrict information, slowly take away civil liberties.

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Post by: Martinus on July 05, 2005, 12:40:21 am

[color=66ff00]I'd say there's a decent amount of paperwork behind faking a terrorist attack.
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