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Tom Blanton, the director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University, had a great op-ed piece in the LA Times yesterday.

In “The Lie Behind The Secrets� Blanton questions the U.S. Governments accelerating use of the “National Security� excuse from judicial inquiry.

From the Article:

President Reagan’s executive secretary at the National Security Council, career Navy officer Rodney McDaniel, told a blue-ribbon commission looking at classification in 1997 that only 10% of the secrecy stamps were for “legitimate protection of secrets.â€?

Read the article and let me know what you think.

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