Declassified Doesn’t Mean Available to the Public
· Story link With the new year, the government automatically declassified hundreds of millions of pages of secret documents, but…
With the new year, the government automatically declassified hundreds of millions of pages of secret documents, but that doesn’t mean all are suddenly public or will be released any time soon. And some won’t ever become public. UC Irvine professor Jon Wiener, who battled the FBI for 23 years over its files on John Lennon, looks at the obstacles. (1/4/07)