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05-05-04, 01:03 AM | #1 |
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Pinochet cover-up
US revisits Pinochet 'secrets'
From: BBC News To classify or not to classify, that is a question seemingly vexing US agents. Nearly 30 years ago, US spies decided Chilean President Augusto Pinochet was a charming, attractive and devoted husband who liked to drink pisco sours. Five years ago, the Clinton White House thought the biography mundane enough to be made public in its entirety. But now the verdict on the man accused of human rights abuses is back among 14 million secrets classified last year, according to an independent watchdog. Earlier this year, the US government's Information Security Oversight Office reported to the White House that 14,228,020 items had been classified during 2003, up from 11 million the previous year and eight million in 2001. But the non-governmental National Security Archive watchdog says one of those documents was the 1975 biography of Gen Pinochet which had already been released in its entirety.... Full Story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3683079.stm Makes me want to get a copy of the original...
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the Bush administration's mania for secrecy is one of it's most disturbing and unhealthy characteristics, imo....
well before 9/11 and all the "national security" cover it provided, the administration took a number of steps to reverse the trend toward governmental transparency that began in the Clinton years including: - the Ashcroft memorandum Quote:
-the expansion of executive privelege claims to cover not just advice from top aides, but virtually any policy-making meeting as well. the Cheney energy task force meetings are currently the subject of a case before the Supreme Court. this has enourmous impact on policy, since it conceals the fact that industry now frequently writes the rules which govern it. Quote:
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