[9824] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
What's New for Jan 21, 1994 (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur R. McGee)
Sat Jan 22 00:25:52 1994
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 21:23:18 -0800 (PST)
From: "Arthur R. McGee" <amcgee@netcom.com>
To: com-priv@psi.com
Damn. :-(
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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 94 16:31:12 EST
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Subject: What's New for Jan 21, 1994
WHAT'S NEW (in my opinion), Friday, 21 Jan 1994 Washington, DC
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3. PANEL CALLS FOR AUTOMATIC DECLASSIFICATION--AFTER 40 YEARS!
In July, President Clinton directed the Information Security
Oversight Office to lead an interagency task force in drafting a
revised classification system (WN 23 Jul 93). Alas, the director
of ISOO, Steven Garfinkel, has been in charge of secrecy for 12
years, a period in which the number of classified documents grew
faster than the national debt. Garfinkel's task farce submitted
a draft report calling for documents to be automatically declass-
ified after 40 years! Presumably, that is long enough to ensure
that middle-aged bureaucrats will go on to their reward before
their mistakes are let out of the vault. Under this rule, many
of the records on human radiation experiments, released under
Hazel O'Leary's openness initiative, could still be kept secret.
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Robert L. Park opa@aps.org The American Physical Society
