AllGov - News - The High Cost of Secrecy to American Taxpayers The federal government is becoming increasingly secretive, every year classifying more and more information as out of bounds for ordinary American citizens, yet charging us billions to keep its secrets from us. According to the recently released 2011 Cost Report by the Information Security Oversight Office <http://www.archives.gov/isoo/> (ISOO), which is part of the National Archives and Records Administration<http://www.allgov.com/agency/National_Archives_and_Records_Administration>, government secrecy efforts cost $11.4 billion in 2011 alone, up $1.2 billion (12%) from 2010, and nearly two-and-a-half times more than ten years before, when the government spent $4.7 billion. http://bit.ly/MGmXUd Source: http://www.allgov.com/Top_Stories/ViewNews/The_High_Cost_of_Secrecy_to_American_Taxpayers_120703 See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/MGmXUd+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterakurilecz Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
