The Nation In Numbers
\nSeptember 2007 Atlantic Monthly
\nby Graeme Wood Aug. 23 2007<\/p>\n
Secrecy that matches the corruption and the refusal to be held accountable<\/b><\/p>\n
Classify This<\/b><\/p>\n
The Bush administration conducts much of its work in the shadows. “Black site” detentions, extraordinary renditions, and domestic eavesdropping all happen in secret, and only by the grace of leaks and slipups do we know they happen at all.
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\nMost secrets stay secret. But for the last quarter century, at least we’ve known how many secrets were being kept, because of the Information Security Oversight Office, or ISOO, an internal government watchdog that keeps tabs on secrecy standards and the number of documents classified each year. Its data show that the shadows have been getting darker and bigger lately, and are now at least the size of those at the height of the Cold War.<\/p>\n
In 2006 alone, the Bush administration classified no fewer than 20.6 million documents, up from ISOO’s recorded low of 3.6 million in the Clinton era. At that rate, with an average document length of 10 pages, the executive branch could fill an archive the size of the Library of Congress in just 40 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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