Friday, January 28, 2011
(graphic: National Security Archive)
The U.S. government made 12,017,075 million pages of previously secret documents available to the public last year, a total that might seem impressive if it wasn’t for the goal set by President Barack Obama: 400 million pages by 2013.
The release of the 12 million pages was performed by the new National Declassification Center, which reviewed 83 million pages of classified historical records in 2010. The remaining 71 million pages, despite being at least 25 years old, will continue to be classified.
The newly declassified materials are available through the National Archives.
According to the latest report by the Declassification Center, as of December 31, 2010, there were still 334, 016,550 pages still “requiring referral quality review processing.”
-Noel Brinkerhoff
Twelve Million Pages Opened by Declass Center in 2010 (by Steven Aftergood, Secrecy News)
Bi-annual Report on Operations of the National Declassification Center (National Archives and Records Administration) (pdf)
Obama Refuses to Order Release of Decades-Old Intelligence Documents (by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov)
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