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Obama orders creation of declassification center (WHAT?)
Washington Post ^ | 12/29/09 | Michael D. Shear

Posted on 12/29/2009 7:33:02 PM PST by Typical_Whitey

President Obama created by executive order Tuesday a National Declassification Center to oversee efforts to make once-secret government documents public.

The order comes as part of Obama's promise to push government to err on the side of disclosure as it tackles the need to keep certain information from the public.

In a post on the White House blog, William H. Leary, the senior director of records and access management at the National Security Council, writes that the effort is aimed at shifting the burden of defending secrecy to the government.

(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bho44; declassification; manchuriancandidate; mymuzfaith; obama; transparency; wot
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The ignorance of this Administration is astounding. I am truly left to believe that they want our enemies to intentionally exploit our vulnerabilities. This Center can serve no good purpose in time of War. Now you will have Polticial Witch Hunters demanding disclosure of once classified information that has kept this nation safe. We have come full circle this is just one more step to ensuring that the Cloward Piven Manufactured Crisis and the fall of Capitalism can be pulled off by these treasonous Socialists.
1 posted on 12/29/2009 7:33:04 PM PST by Typical_Whitey
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To: Typical_Whitey

“promise to push government to err on the side of disclosure as it tackles the need to keep certain information from the public”

lol! Like the dox on the Panthers/Justice farce.


2 posted on 12/29/2009 7:35:30 PM PST by happinesswithoutpeace (Nobody move, Nobody get hurt)
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To: Typical_Whitey; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows

Still waiting for Barack Hussein Obama’s long form birth certificate to be declassified.


3 posted on 12/29/2009 7:36:44 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Question authority!Who is the University of East Anglia to drive the 'Global Climate Change' agenda?)
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To: Typical_Whitey
In the executive order, Obama instructs the government not to keep secrets forever, eliminates the ability of intelligence officials to veto declassification decisions, and requires agencies to conduct reviews of their classification procedures.

Just in time for KSM to use in his trial.
4 posted on 12/29/2009 7:37:07 PM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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To: Typical_Whitey

“shifting the burden of defending secrecy to the government”

??? So obama can say it’s not his decision?


5 posted on 12/29/2009 7:37:22 PM PST by ElayneJ
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To: Typical_Whitey

I didn’t think any one was this stupid.
Obama is going to get us all killed.


6 posted on 12/29/2009 7:37:27 PM PST by BuffaloJack (Hoax and Chains)
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To: Typical_Whitey

Well, we can start declassifying Obamao’s Birth Certificate and Passport applications with their country of origin.


7 posted on 12/29/2009 7:38:23 PM PST by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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To: a fool in paradise

He has a gift, Harry!


8 posted on 12/29/2009 7:38:48 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Typical_Whitey

National Declassification “Put someone else down to make yourself look better” Center


9 posted on 12/29/2009 7:39:12 PM PST by Son House (The Learning Curve for Democrats on Macroeconomics is getting Exponential)
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To: Typical_Whitey
If anyone has read the thing, there is some interesting language in section 1.7;

Sec. 1.7. Classification Prohibitions and Limitations.
(a) In no case shall information be classified, continue to be maintained as classified, or fail to be declassified in order to:
(1) conceal violations of law, inefficiency, or administrative error;

(2) prevent embarrassment to a person, organization, or agency;

So when will his birth certificate be released now that it cannot be classified top secret or secret?

10 posted on 12/29/2009 7:39:33 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.)
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To: Typical_Whitey

Dumbass, dumbass, dumbass or a really clever Muslem.


11 posted on 12/29/2009 7:40:21 PM PST by doc1019 (To call Obama a bumbling idiot would be an insult to bumbling idiots worldwide.)
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To: Typical_Whitey

Barry is one treasonous SOB.


12 posted on 12/29/2009 7:41:23 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Remember in November! Throw all of the bums out!)
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To: Typical_Whitey
President Transparency.

How about opening up your own secret documents?

13 posted on 12/29/2009 7:42:05 PM PST by RazzPutin ("You have told us more than you can possibly know." -- Niels Bohr)
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To: Typical_Whitey

He’s just trying to find excuses to create government jobs.


14 posted on 12/29/2009 7:42:50 PM PST by Brilliant
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Proving once and for all that Nancy Pelosi is the result of Alien experimentation with goats that went bad?


15 posted on 12/29/2009 7:43:57 PM PST by R0CK3T
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To: Revolting cat!
Yep, BO is a genius with a "J" alright! A real jenius.
16 posted on 12/29/2009 7:44:07 PM PST by JouleZ (You are the company you keep.)
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To: Typical_Whitey
It's an EO...It will most likely see the round file as soon as he leave office.


17 posted on 12/29/2009 7:44:25 PM PST by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: Typical_Whitey; FlingWingFlyer

Lest we forget, the FR thread from 5/08 “Muslim Obama: ‘WILL STAND WITH MUSLIMS SHOULD POLITICAL WINDS SHIFT IN UGLY DIRECTION’”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2022038/posts


18 posted on 12/29/2009 7:44:59 PM PST by Canedawg (FUBO)
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To: Typical_Whitey

He’s doing this at the beach?


19 posted on 12/29/2009 7:46:18 PM PST by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: Man50D

And to pass the blame for panty bomber onto Bush- again.


20 posted on 12/29/2009 7:46:51 PM PST by rintense (You do not advance conservatism by becoming more liberal. ~ rintense, 2006)
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