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shawa
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 Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:51 pm Post subject: U.S. to Declassify Secrets at Age 25 |
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Hmmm. I would sure like to see un-redacted FBI investigation files on JK's 1970's activities.
| Quote: | | Several hundred million pages will be declassified at midnight on Dec. 31, including 270 million pages at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which has lagged most agencies in reviews. |
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Me#1You#10
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| Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:24 pm Post subject: Re: U.S. to Declassify Secrets at Age 25 |
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| shawa wrote: | | Hmmm. I would sure like to see un-redacted FBI investigation files on JK's 1970's activities. |
As would I, but I'm concerned that the release of unredacted files would create a litigation tsunami.
Nor am I clear on whether "released files" might still be "redacted" or not. |
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Harvuskong
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| Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 7:23 am Post subject: |
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Ah, aren't there some FBI files about Kerry's anti-war activities somewhere on the net.
I seem to remember about 3 cd's worth of files being released by the FBI and the 3 cd's contents being freely available to all who wish to download them. |
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JN173
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| Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Harvuskong wrote: | Ah, aren't there some FBI files about Kerry's anti-war activities somewhere on the net.
I seem to remember about 3 cd's worth of files being released by the FBI and the 3 cd's contents being freely available to all who wish to download them. |
Winter Soldier have a fairly complete set of VVAW's FBI files at:
http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/index.php?topic=VVAWFBI
I don't recall seeing just Kerry's files but the VVAW files have a lot of references to Kerry.
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kate
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Can read the article in full at HeraldTribune
| Quote: | SCOTT SHANE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 —
It will be a Cinderella moment for the band of researchers who study the hidden history of American government.
At midnight on Dec. 31, hundreds of millions of pages of secret documents will be instantly declassified, including many FBI cold war files on investigations of people suspected of being Communist sympathizers. After years of extensions sought by federal agencies behaving like college students facing a term paper, the end of 2006 means the government’s first automatic declassification of records.
Secret documents 25 years old or older will lose their classified status without so much as the stroke of a pen, unless agencies have sought exemptions on the ground that the material remains secret.
Historians say the deadline, created in the Clinton administration but enforced, to the surprise of some scholars, by the secrecy-prone Bush administration, has had huge effects on public access, despite the large numbers of intelligence documents that have been exempted.
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full text here of Clinton's EO , if one can wade through the governmentspeak
| Quote: | THE WHITE HOUSE
For Immediate Release -- April 17, 1995
EXECUTIVE ORDER 12958
CLASSIFIED NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION |
as for kerry...what's been released are the files the FBI had on the VVAW.
kerry says he's seen his personal FBI file > which is NY file 100-172952  if the opportunity arises
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Me#1You#10
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| I'd like to take a gander at Kennedy's archives from Dec '68 through March '69. Perhaps there's correspondence in there relating to Kerry's first PH. That Kerry would resort to political muscle to get that award seems not only plausible but probable. |
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