[nero]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NYTimes', 'A')nna K. Nelson, a foreign policy historian at American University, said she and other researchers had been puzzled in recent years by the number of documents pulled from the archives with little explanation.
"I think this is a travesty," said Dr. Nelson, who said she believed that some reclassified material was in her files. "I think the public is being deprived of what history is really about: facts."
The document removals have not been reported to the Information Security Oversight Office, as the law has required for formal reclassifications since 2003.
The explanation, said Mr. Leonard, the head of the office, is a bureaucratic quirk. The intelligence agencies take the position that the reclassified documents were never properly declassified, even though they were reviewed, stamped "declassified," freely given to researchers and even published, he said.
Thus, the agencies argue, the documents remain classified — and pulling them from public access is not really reclassification.

[gego]

George Orwell's, 1984.

Rewriting history in action as he described.

[send_oil_please]

I honestly think of it sort of like Orwell's 1984 Meets The Keystone Cops.
And it is pretty typical.. like a bad "Ground Hogs Day" scene but with different characters and plots each time (episodes I, II, ...XXVII... and I think Woody Alan plays Alan Greenspan this time, in place of Bill Murry's news reporter part this time).

Same charades as those played before, same comic/tragic out comes in the end. The Lendendary-In-Their-Minds-only Wave Riders Like Greenspan and Bernanke are just the latest victims of their own egos and fantastic imaginations...
The Buck Stops With This Generation. We are going to be the ones to pay the dues we've been whining about for 3 decades.

[J-Rod]

I took the time to re-read 1984 several months ago, in light of recent events. Man, was he ahead of his time. Or maybe not, maybe he just saw a natural pattern in events within his own time.

The nature of the documents being classified are kinda spooky. I mean State Department foreign relation history? This is just nuts...

[gego]

George Orwell also wrote the "Animal Farm".
The animals revolted and threw out the farmer. The dogs and pigs took over the management of the farm and lived in the farmers old house. The other animals did all the work.

They had written some sort of Bill of Rights on the barn wall, but as time progressed, the working animals kept noticing that what was written on the barn wall was not quite the same as it was the previous day.
Truly George Orwell did understand some of what would come to pass. I think he deserves to be described as a visionary.

[rogerhb]

Rumsfeld's Roadmap to Propaganda
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')ecret Pentagon "roadmap" calls for "boundaries" between "information operations" abroad and at home but provides no actual limits as long as US doesn't "target" Americans
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 177
For more information contact: Kristin Adair / Thomas Blanton
202 994 7000
Posted - January 26, 2006

[mortifiedpenguin]

Somehow I just don't think the US Government is trying to rewrite history. So numerous documents are being pulled. So what? It is impossible to change history like in 1984, with the world we have today. Washington still crossed the Delaware. Lewis and Clark still made their journey across North America. Alexander Graham Bell still invented the telephone. Etc. You just cannot change history now. It is impossible.

[Doly]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mortifiedpenguin', 'I')t is impossible to change history like in 1984, with the world we have today. Washington still crossed the Delaware. Lewis and Clark still made their journey across North America. Alexander Graham Bell still invented the telephone. Etc. You just cannot change history now. It is impossible.

[mortifiedpenguin]

I actually did do what you said, and found an old history textbook in my closet. The "Family Encyclopedia of American History." Written in 1960, but close enough. I read about several major events in American history, including the events from my last post (minus Alexander Graham Bell, he's actually from Scotland.)

Then I looked through my massive US History textbook for those very same events. While the wording was quite different, and some of the facts were indeed different like you said, the two histories were still basically the same. Washington still crossed the Delaware, Lewis and Clark still traveled across North America, we still defeated Great Britain in the American Revolution and the War of 1812, etc. So yes, I still firmly believe that history cannot be changed and that the world of 1984 could never happen today.

[Raxozanne]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mortifiedpenguin', ' ')I still firmly believe that history cannot be changed and that the world of 1984 could never happen today.

[Zardoz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mortifiedpenguin', '.')..I still firmly believe that history cannot be changed and that the world of 1984 could never happen today

[gego]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mortifiedpenguin', 'I') actually did do what you said, and found an old history textbook in my closet. The "Family Encyclopedia of American History." Written in 1960, but close enough. I read about several major events in American history, including the events from my last post (minus Alexander Graham Bell, he's actually from Scotland.)
Then I looked through my massive US History textbook for those very same events. While the wording was quite different, and some of the facts were indeed different like you said, the two histories were still basically the same. Washington still crossed the Delaware, Lewis and Clark still traveled across North America, we still defeated Great Britain in the American Revolution and the War of 1812, etc. So yes, I still firmly believe that history cannot be changed and that the world of 1984 could never happen today.

[rwwff]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', 'T')he Japanese have successfully revised history for decades. Several generations grew up with no idea of what actually happened in World War II. Many young tourists have come to Hawaii and been stunned to learn about the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Some claimed they had never even heard of it.
The Japanese are still trying to cover up their atrocities in China, Korea, the Phillipines, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific islands. What they've done with their WWII record is truly Orwellian

[nero]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MortifiedPenguin', 'T')hen I looked through my massive US History textbook for those very same events. While the wording was quite different, and some of the facts were indeed different like you said, the two histories were still basically the same. Washington still crossed the Delaware, Lewis and Clark still traveled across North America, we still defeated Great Britain in the American Revolution and the War of 1812, etc. So yes, I still firmly believe that history cannot be changed and that the world of 1984 could never happen today.

[PraireRanger]

How many lights!