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Here’s one: a 1987 email from a staffer to then deputy national-security adviser Colin Powell, filling him in on a high-level meeting he’d skipped on the future of Iran and Iraq. And actually, it’s two versions of the same email—one released by theunder legal pressure one week in 1994, the other released about a week later. Big chunks are blacked out of both, but the funny thing is they’re nearly opposite sets of chunks.
staffers to Minnesota, where they were attempting to get an alt-weekly off the ground. While investigating the construction of controversial high-voltage power lines across farm country, Blanton wrote to federal regulators, asking for copies of studies on the health effects of those lines. He was a 22-year-old cub reporter for a fledgling local paper, shaky enough that it would soon fail. But he had a powerful new tool: the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA.
Blanton with a framed copy of the FBI fingerprint form for former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, who was captured in 2003. In the early aughts, the archive expanded its role, providing documents and hard evidence to many of the “truth” commissions that sprang up around the world following the Cold War to investigate historical atrocities and human-rights abuses. “ tell us that the value of these documents for their work is that they can say, ‘This is not just me pointing a finger at a dictator,’ ” says Blanton. “ ‘This is what the State Department was telling Washington.
Other tactics include filing lawsuits—such as the six years of litigation that produced the Powell emails on the skipped Iran and Iraq meeting—and studying everything from Defense Department phone books to newspaper front pages and obituaries to see who might have access to spillable secrets. Once, after spotting former national-security adviser Condoleezza Rice testifying before Congress by reading off a key 9/11 memo stamped declassified, archive staffers pressed for—and scored—a copy.
I wouldn’t want a diagram of a binarychemical warhead and engineering measurements on it declassified, right? Bad guy is gonna do really bad.
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