I heard the reason no one could investigate JFK's death futher was because the gov't locks away top secret files for a certain amount of years, and they cannot be released for.. 30 years? or 50? not sure. Anyone know??
2006-08-09 02:28:43 · 6 answers · asked by BringBackTheBeats 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Maybe I'm just stupid, but I don't understand the rationale behind this?
I mean I do, in a way... but isn't it important to access information about a serious crime to be able to investigate it further... like the assassination of the president.
2006-08-09 02:42:29 · update #1
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 — In a seven-year-old secret program at the National Archives, intelligence agencies have been removing from public access thousands of historical documents that were available for years, including some already published by the State Department and others photocopied years ago by private historians.Recently accelerated actions by the Bush administration to put a stop to the American public's access to government records is shocking and scary. Now, George W. Bush is taking America down a similar path and, like other tyrants, he is accomplishing this by making certain kinds of information forbidden. By cutting off access to previous presidents' letters and government records, Bush is preventing political scientists and historical scholars from producing vital analysis of past policy failures which must not be repeated because the cost is too high.Meanwhile, Bush has allowed intelligence, military, and other government agencies to remove files at the National Archives, reclassifying thousands of documents that had previously been public.
2006-08-09 02:52:36 · answer #1 · answered by jdfnv 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
A lot of things are kept from public view to protect the public and government. They can only classify items for a certain amount of time, and then to reclassify they have to get approval from congress.
The reason they wait 50 years is because most people that truly honestly cared are dead by then. Children are not, but they weren't the 40-50 year old of the time of incident that had stock and meaning in the situation. Also, the amount of population that really looks into it when it's quietly published into another hard-to-get too obscure location, is very very small.
So the information never gets passed. Imagine we knew everything the government knew about 911 RIGHT NOW.
It'd be too much to handle for the general population.
2006-08-09 09:55:03 · answer #2 · answered by Solrium 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard 50
2006-08-09 09:32:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, all governments do that.
2006-08-09 09:34:34 · answer #4 · answered by ijcoffin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MANY THINGS ARE KEPT FROM THE PUBLIC....CAUSE IT WOULD CAUSE A REVOLUTION IN THE SOCIETY
2006-08-09 09:45:32 · answer #5 · answered by flowerspirit2000 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
classified information by its nature is LOCKED AWAY .....
2006-08-09 09:36:30 · answer #6 · answered by W E J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋