Don’t hold your breath for declassified docs
Steven Aftergood reports that only 27 million pages in a 400 million-page backlog of historical records ordered declassified by the end of 2013 have been processed. “It now seems very unlikely that the president’s directive will be fulfilled,” he says.
“The looming failure to comply with an explicit presidential order is a sign of the growing autonomy of the secrecy system, which to a surprising extent is literally out of control.”