At the stroke of midnight on December 31, hundreds of millions of pages of secret government documents--including 270 million pages of FBI files--were instantly declassified, promising to shed light on everything from the Cuban Missile Crisis to government surveillance of antiwar and civil rights activists in the [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Hardly surprising. What is in fact a real national security issue is exposing the public to the true historical modus operandi of our government. Bush and the Neo-cons didn
If they have a manpower shortage, maybe we could organize some volunteers to help them.
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