March 28, 2003

Bush Administration Releases Draft Policy on Release of Classified Documents

A draft policy from the Bush administration on the release of classified documents is being met with relief by historians and proponents of a more open government.

The draft would preserve a process, established in an executive order in 1995, that requires the government to automatically make public any 25-year-old classified document that does not contain information critical to national security. However, the policy would delay those documents scheduled to be released this spring