“indian give” on declassified documents for no apparent reason:

U.S. intelligence agencies have been secretly removing from public access at the National Archives thousands of historical documents that were available for years, The New York Times reported on Monday.

The restoration of classified status to more than 55,000 previously declassified pages began in 1999, when the CIA and five other agencies objected to what they saw as a hasty release of sensitive information after a 1995 declassification order signed by President Bill Clinton, the Times said on its Web site.

The secret program accelerated after the Bush administration took office and especially after the September 11 attacks, according to archives records, the paper said.

Anyone who made copies of this stuff when it wasn’t classified, feel free to put it online. I’m really curious as to what the info is that we’re (implicitly) being told “whoops, you weren’t supposed to see that” about, especially in context of current events.

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