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Intelligence agency has released its bay of pigs draft history that they locked up for 30 years. On what grounds . Well, when you read it, you find out the grounds. The historian who wrote it and drafted it said, after more than 20 years it appears that fear of supposing the agencys dirty linen rather than any significant security information is what prompts continued denial of requests for release of these records. Thats the norm in the bureaucracy. Your amendments broke this loose, the cia historian wrote on the backs, well, shucks, recent 2016 changes in the fr d freedom of information act requires to us release some drafts. You did it by statute. Thats the congresss role. You can do it to the classification system. And i recommend the detailed list of recommendations in the back of this extraordinary report, the moynihancomebest report, for how you can do that. You can build in costbenefit into the originating classification decision. You can build in assessments of whats the real ....

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