Obama Orders Creation Of Declassification Center -- Washington Post

President Obama created by executive order Tuesday a National Declassification Center to oversee efforts to make once-secret government documents public.

The order comes as part of Obama's promise to push government to err on the side of disclosure as it tackles the need to keep certain information from the public.

In a post on the White House blog, William H. Leary, the senior director of records and access management at the National Security Council, writes that the effort is aimed at shifting the burden of defending secrecy to the government.

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My Comment: It is still too early to comment on what will be the eventual shape of this "National Declassification Center", but the following sentence will ... I am sure .... give everyone pause.

The order comes as part of Obama's promise to push government to err on the side of disclosure as it tackles the need to keep certain information from the public.

To err on the side of disclosure ..... hmmmm .... I have to let that one sink in for a little while.