For U.S. Archivist's comments on the reclassification audit report
released today, see
http://www.archives.gov/isoo/reports/weinstein-remarks.html
For the reclassification audit results, see
http://www.archives.gov/isoo/reports/2006-audit-report.html
For the message from NARA's ISOO director, Bill Leonard, see
http://www.archives.gov/isoo/reports/2006-audit-report-attach-1.pdf
I think Dr. Weinstein and Bill Leonad strike the right note. While
pointing to the need to properly protect from release certain types of
government, Bill Leonard notes "deliberate decisions" that constituted
a misuse of the classification system.
Dr. Weinstein notes of the audit, "Moreover, ISOO concluded that in one
of these re-review efforts, the CIA actually "withdrew a considerable
number of purely unclassified records in order to obfuscate the
classified equity that the agency was intent on protecting." That
practice, which undermined NARA's basic mission to preserve the
authenticity of files under our stewardship, must never be repeated."
For detailed information on what NARA/ISOO believes was done right and
what was done wrong, see the links above.
Maarja
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