Opening the Archives

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.

Categories: Government Transparency    

    5 Comments

    1. Mark Buehner says:

      Let’s start with this administrations Guantanamo kabuki. I’m not going to hold my breath.

    2. Paul 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!

    3. Leo 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.

    4. Mark 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. =]

    5. Gary says:

      This will ultimately become a partisan effort to trash Republicans and rehabilitate Democrats.