[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [SRRTAC-L:17410] [UTKSIS-L] [IP] Report says US data secrecy expanding and getting costlier (fwd)

[Alfred Kagan]

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> From: Frederick W Stoss <fstoss at buffalo.edu>
> Date: September 6, 2005 12:45:15 PM CDT
> To: SRRT Action Council <srrtac-l at ala.org>
> Subject: [SRRTAC-L:17410] [UTKSIS-L] [IP] Report says US data secrecy 
> expanding and getting costlier (fwd)
> Reply-To: fstoss at buffalo.edu
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> FYI. Fred Stoss, Univ at Buffalo
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> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 13:12:25 -0400
> From: Chris Hodge <chodge5 at UTK.EDU>
> To: UTKSIS-L at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
> From: David Farber <dave at farber.net>
> From: Monty Solomon <monty at roscom.com>
>
> Report says US data secrecy expanding and getting costlier
> Expenses rose to $7.2b in 2004
>
> By Michael J. Sniffen, Associated Press  |  September 4, 2005
>
> WASHINGTON -- The government is withholding more data than ever from
> the public and expanding ways of shrouding information. Last year,
> federal agencies spent a record $148 creating and storing new secrets
> for each $1 spent declassifying old secrets, a coalition of watchdog
> groups reported yesterday.
>
> That's a $28 jump from 2003, when $120 was spent to keep secrets for
> every $1 spent revealing them. In the late 1990s, the ratio was
> $15-$17 a year to $1, according to the secrecy report card by
> OpenTheGovernment.org.
>
> Overall, the government spent $7.2 billion in 2004 stamping 15.6
> million documents ''top secret," ''secret," or ''confidential." That
> almost doubled the 8.6 million new documents classified as recently
> as 2001.
>
> Last year, the number of pages declassified declined for the fourth
> straight year to 28.4 million. In 2001, 100 million pages were
> declassified; the record was 204 million pages in 1997.
>
> These figures cover 41 federal agencies, excluding the CIA, whose
> classification totals are secret.
>
>
> ...
>
> http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/09/04/
> report_says_us_data_secrecy_expanding_and_getting_costlier/
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Al Kagan
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