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...already entered the Democratic candidates' lexicons," says Thomas S. Blanton '77-79, director of planning and research for the National Security Archives (NSA), a Washington-based organization that seeks to declassify information...
...presumption in previous administrations was that this information should not be classified unless it would cause discernible harm," Blanton says. "The presumption in the Reagan Administration has been that this stuff shouldn't be released...
Those who oppose the Reagan restrictions argue that the Administration is hiding behind the mosaic theory to prevent scrutiny of its policies. "The intent of that argument is to have the discretionary power to limit information," Blanton says. "What they're trying to do is to get a free pass on classifying information to avoid embarrassment...
...addition, critics argue that the restrictions cannot succeed, because sophisticated intelligence gatherers are able to piece together scientific information despite strict controls. "What any researcher worth their salt does is construct mosaics," Blanton says...
...unwanted renown when Martin Luther King's killer James Earl Ray escaped in 1977, was last renovated 40 years ago. "Cottages" for youthful offenders, built at the village of Only during the 1970s, were converted to house vicious criminals, but soon became ungovernable warrens. Corruption spread. Former Governor Ray Blanton, now in jail for selling state liquor licenses, was accused of abusing his power of executive clemency in pardoning and paroling inmates, a scandal loosely dramatized in the current movie Marie...