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READ HISTORY AND THE TERRORISTS WIN: ARCHIVES REMOVE A MILLION PAGES
FROM PUBLIC VIEW
AP - 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.
. . 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
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-03-13-archives_N.htm
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FROM PUBLIC VIEW
AP - 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.
. . 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
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-03-13-archives_N.htm
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