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These 2 data sets don't even relate. As the first Anonymous comment says, the documents being declassified now are from the past. However, the graph gives the false idea that current government agencies are pulling some kind of sleight-of-hand.
This is a disturbing abuse of numbers.
(about 1 year ago)
WDavidStephenson:
Sorry, those who don't think Bush has dramatically increased rate of classification:
NYTimes, Sunday 03 July 2005
Washington - Driven in part by fears of terrorism, 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 new categories of semi-secrets bearing vague labels like "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 Meanwhile, the declassification process, which made millions of historical documents available annually in the 1990's, has slowed to a relative crawl, from a high of 204 million pages in 1997 to just 28 million pages last year.
W. David Stephenson
(about 1 year ago)
What is the US
Government Not Tel..