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DECLASSIFY, DECLASSIFY!'.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)

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From: The Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Date: 20030804
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Henry David Thoreau offered a proviso for improving the condition of the individual: "Our life is frittered away by detail. ... Simplify, simplify, simplify!"

With respect and regard for the great dissenter against imperialist impulses, foreign entanglements and the secretive rulers who hatch schemes to cut the citizenry out of the democratic experiment, we would propose a Thoreauism for improving the condition of the nation: "Declassify, declassify!"

And the place to begin the declassification is with the recently released congressional report on the Sept. 11, 2001, ...

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