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Declassification Board: Named but Unfunded
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem May 02, 2005 01:19am |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Monday, May 2, 2005 07:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Panel on Government Secrecy Unable to Operate
By Christopher Lee
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 2, 2005; Page A15
In Washington, it takes many ingredients to make a bureaucracy: a measure of authorizing legislation, a pinch of personnel and, of course, money to help it rise.
The five-year-old Public Interest Declassification Board is still one element short of the recipe, leaving a bad taste in the mouths of advocates of open government.
Congress created the nine-member advisory panel in late 2000 to help the executive branch sort out which classified government documents should be made public, and when. It's a mission that has increased in importance since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, as the government struggles to find a balance between the secrecy sometimes needed for national security and the openness a democracy depends on to work properly.
The declassification board was the only recommendation of a two-year commission on government secrecy led in the mid-1990s by then-Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) that made it into law. Passed partly as a tribute to Moynihan before he retired, the board existed in name only. |
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