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Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Bush's War on History

Six years ago, the Clinton-Gore administration was pressing to declassify documents from the Cold War that were deemed essential for the American people to understand their recent history. More records from the Reagan-Bush era were slated for release on Jan. 20, 2001.

But the Inauguration of George W. Bush changed all that. He blocked the Reagan-Bush document releases; he granted power over records to ex-presidents and their heirs; and he even accelerated a program to reclassify thousands of documents already released. Secrecy again trumped the public's right to know its history.

For the full story of how George W. Bush kept the American people in a kind of permanent childhood -- and protected his family's secrets -- go to Consortiumnews.com.

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