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Obama administration working to derail declassification order

donal brown November 30, 2009

The Obama administration wants to delay an order to declassify historical records at least 25 years old to allow government agencies time to review the records. -DB Secrecy News Federation of American Scientists Commentary November 23, 2009 By Steven Aftergood Development of a new executive order on classification of national security information is now proceeding at an accelerated pace in order to preempt a deadline that would require the declassification of millions of pages of historical

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National security classification may find reasonable term limits

donal brown September 30, 2009

For the first time, a presidential administration has said that no information may remain classified indefinitely, raising hopes that after no more than 50 years government records would be automatically declassified and intelligence records no more than 75 years from date or origin. -DB Secrecy News Federation of American Scientists CommentarySeptember 29, 2009 By Steven Aftergood “No information may remain classified indefinitely,” according to a draft of an Obama Administration executive order on national security

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