declasified secrets

[richardajudd]

At the stroke of midnight December 31 2006 the paradigm of secrecy shifted in the government secrecy system. The days when secrets would be secret forever officially ended that night.
Some 400 million formally classified pages at the national archives another 270 million at the FBI,
30 million elsewhere, all emerging in to the sunshine of open government, some 700 million pages of secret documents became “unsecret”
This would seem a victory for freedom of information, just as president bill Clinton envisioned when he signed executive order 12958 in 1995 (affirmed by president bush in 2003) which mandated that 25 year old documents be automatically declassified unless exempt for national security or other reasons. There is a dirty secret about these secrets…
50 archivists can process 40 million pages a year, but now their facing 700 million.
The backlog inside the national archives 11 facility in college park, measures 160,000 cubic feet inside a massive classified vault with special lighting and climate controls to preserve old paper.
Row upon row of electronically controlled steel shelves holds hundreds of thousands of document boxes buffered to fight destructive acidity.
Inside the boxes of documents that have to be scrutinized and processed according to classification instructions written on then by staffers in anyone of several agencies, which leaves archivists with a task not unlike deciphering a 25 year old crime scene.
“It’s like CSI, only it’s in records.” Says Neil Carmichael the supervisory archivist, “You never know what you’re going to get.”

[Enzo]

I don't understand your threads. In this one you are basically posting this article but worded slightly differently: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...01216.html

and you added lots of spelling & punctuation mistakes + not even posted the article in full