This is for anyone who is following the controversy over the National 
Archives' handling of classified information.  I posted this on the Archives List 
this morning.  If any of you have wondered why so many of my comments about 
records have a throughline about managerial obligations to protect subordinate 
employees, the two excerpts from the New Yorker article that I extracted on HNN 
may explain why I am so gun shy.
 
Maarja
 
Subj: Link to comments posted about NARA, secrecy, transparency, etc.  
Date: 4/14/2006 7:30:57 AM Eastern Standard Time 
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K. C. Johnson, an historian, posted a link earlier this week to Chris Lee's 
Washington Post article on secrecy and the National Archives at HNN's blog, 
Cliopatria.  I used that forum to post a number of comments, beyond the scope 
possible here on the Archives List.  It isn't the ideal forum for me, as most of 
the bloggers at Cliopatria are academics who have not used NARA much for 
research.  They mostly lack a frame of reference for Federal records and seem quite 
uninformed on archival or records issues.  Most of their blog entries center 
on academic issues, campus news, current events.  Johnson, however, has worked 
with the LBJ tapes, materials which derive from an old "donor-restricted" 
Presidential Library rather than one where release is governed by the 
Presidential Records Act.  Still, I was able to post a bunch of staff at Cliopatria..  
For anyone interested in my assessments of the challenges NARA faces on 
transparency, what to tell researchers, please see 
http://hnn.us/blogs/comments/23889.html . 
 
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