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From: The Topeka Capital-Journal
Date: 20060426
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The following lines from the Greek tragedian Sophocles have stuck with me for more than 20 years: "Fools may honor impious men, because in their city no tragic poet sings."

I have to wonder what Sophocles would make of the recent announcement by the National Archives that 55,000 pages of information had been reclassified and removed in a secret program initiated by the CIA and other intelligence agencies. It is telling that at the same time the U.S. government seeks to limit the public's access to decades-old records, the German government has agreed to open its own Holocaust archives.

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