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Information wants to be classified.

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item posted 1:22:03: 03-09-05 by kyle.

Steven Aftergood, in his outstanding Secrecy News, reports that the annual number of decisions by the U.S. Government to stamp stuff CLASSIFIED has increased by 75 percent since Bush took office. Nine million classification decisions were made in 2001; 11 million in '02; 14 million in '03; and a whopping16 million documents, dossiers, etc. were made secret last year.

To be fair, Aftergood quotes a guy noting that we did start two wars and create a whole new Homeland Security Department during this period: "[I]t cannot be said conclusively from these data that the increase ... was due solely or even substantially to the phenomenon of 'over-classification'," says William Leonard, director of the Information Security Oversight Office (a.k.a. -- in this blogspace anyway -- The Office of Job Security).

However, as Aftergood sharply points out:

Also in this edition of SN, tax breaks for spies.

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