The head of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in public testimony seven years ago admitted an arrangement between his organization and certain other federal agencies whereby formerly classified (secret) documents would be withdrawn again from public view for national security reasons. The process for withdrawing the documents was to be conducted in secret, as well.
It was determined subsequently that upwards of one-third of the records which had been reclassified as secret didn't jeopardize national security at all.
Supposedly on the positive side, the National Declassification Center was created three years ago to oversee declassification of records throughout the government, including classified records that had been transferred to NARA.
But, in the meantime, we've learned that the government is recording information concerning our phone contacts, data from our Internet activities and to whom we send mail via the postal service.
If those examples are any indication, in terms of government abuses, the people get one step forward, then three steps back. Sound a little like King George III?
Maybe all of us should read the Declaration of Independence again.
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