The AP reports President Obama is likely to sign an executive order before year’s end to create a National Declassification Center to review Cold War era documents for potential declassification and discourage the classification of documents going forward. This would be a very welcome step.
Mark Buehner says:
Let’s start with this administrations Guantanamo kabuki. I’m not going to hold my breath.
December 21, 2009, 12:50 pmPaul Horwitz says:
Right on, Mark. This is exactly the kind of America-hating crap you’d expect the guy to pull. Plus, he hates America!
December 21, 2009, 2:32 pmLeo Marvin says:
I had a bet with myself about how many comments it would take for someone to turn this into an attack on Obama. I lost.
December 21, 2009, 3:57 pmMark N. says:
Sounds good for historians of the Cold War. A few large document dumps will render existing histories of the era sufficiently obsolete to justify a whole new slew of dissertations, articles, and books. =]
December 21, 2009, 6:34 pmGary says:
This will ultimately become a partisan effort to trash Republicans and rehabilitate Democrats.
December 22, 2009, 12:43 am