AP: More Than a Million Pages Removed from Archives
More than 1 million pages of historical government records have been removed from public access at the National Archives on asserted security grounds since September 2001, according to an Associated Press investigation.
Some of the records are more than 100 years old.
See “Government guards papers from public eye” by Frank Bass and Randy Herschaft, Associated Press, March 14.
To illustrate the sometimes questionable nature of the document withdrawals, the Associated Press has posted an interactive “quiz” for readers (thanks to resourceshelf.com).
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