Million pages pulled from U.S. archives

[question everything]

MSNBC.com
Million pages pulled from U.S. archives
Agency acknowledges going too far but says time was of essence
The Associated Press


More than 1 million pages of historical government documents — a stack taller than the U.S. Capitol — have been removed from public view since the September 2001 terror attacks, according to records obtained by The Associated Press. Some of the papers are more than a century old.

In some cases, entire file boxes were removed without significant review because the government’s central record-keeping agency, the National Archives and Records Administration, did not have time for a more thorough audit.

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The records administration began removing materials under its “records of concern” program, launched in November 2001 after the Justice Department instructed agencies to be more guarded in releasing government papers. The agency has removed about 1.1 million pages, according to partially redacted monthly progress reports reviewed by the AP. The reports were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

The pulled records include the presumably dangerous, such as nearly half an enormous database from the Federal Emergency Management Agency with information about all federal facilities. But they also include the presumably useless, such as part of a collection about the Lower Colorado River Authority that includes 114-year-old papers.

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URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17597711/

[Subdivisions]

1. Therein lies the scrub! n/t

[CrazyOrangeCat]

2. our wonderful ole Dick o' Death . . .

. . . is behind this. I have very little doubt of it. He's a busy guy.

[Vexatious Ape]

3. Down the memory hole.

Yes, information is dangerous, just feed'em shit and keep'em in the dark.

[Lars39]

4. I've often thought how easy it would be for them to dumb us down

enough, so that in a generation or two they are able to switch the Declaration of Independence.
Wasn't Halliburton the company put in charge of security for the D of I?

[rasputin1952]

5. Makes me wonder if they are using them for fuel to warm that bath at

the WH, much akin to the Romans burning the scrolls at the Library at Alexandria.

While I am hopeful that there are bureaucrats that have worked the Archives for years and would hold these documents safely, one can never tell w/the bush admin in charge.