[CivicAccess-discuss] US spends $200 maintaining secrets for every $1 spent declassifying

[Jennifer Bell]

The US group OpenTheGovernment just released a secrecy report card:

http://openthegovernment.org/

I haven't read it yet, but according to here:

http://foiadvocate.blogspot.com/2009/09/2009-secrecy-report-card.html

It contains the nugget that:

"The government spent nearly $200 maintaining the secrets already on the books for every one dollar the government spent declassifying documents in 2008,"

I wonder what the numbers are like for Canada?

Jennifer Bell
http://visiblegovernment.ca


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