the cat is out of the bag

so i'm all for national security and such, no crazy redneck can say i'm not a patriot or whatever, but this is insane. there has been a big movement the last few years to re-classify information and papers already released to the public. on first glance this may seem ok, but de-classified information ahs already had to go through a series of hoops to get where it is, is ALWAYS atleast 25 years old, if not more, and most of any important information is still blacked out. case in point, in writing a research paper on CIA activities in overthrowing third world governtments- yeah i know that one probably got me on some sort of FBI hit list, especially after i submitted it to be published in undergrad journals- there was very little first hand information from any government agency. I was going back to the 1950's and almost none of this info had been de-classified, do you think that really there is an urgent need to re-classify the info out there? most of what is available is in 6th grade history books. the real reasoning behind most of this is quite vain:

"One reclassified document in Mr. Aid's files, for instance, gives the C.I.A.'s assessment on Oct. 12, 1950, that Chinese intervention in the Korean War was 'not probable in 1950.' Just two weeks later, on Oct. 27, some 300,000 Chinese troops crossed into Korea."- today's NY Times

ooops, yeah- we fucked up a little on that assessment. not that being off on the info has changed much in the last 50 years has it boys? but do you think covering it up is going to help anyone really? beyond that is the point that all of this information has been available to the public for some time now, and many private historians have copies of now classified materials. good, another way for the administration to turn intellectuals into criminals...