<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/49d00a39-f1a7-49be-be93-5164cd017c89/3F6BC89F-F500-463F-B7FA-87D499FCAE63/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2007/05/13/security_expert_calls_feds_absurdly_secret/8272/" href="http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2007/05/13/security_expert_calls_feds_absurdly_secret/8272/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.upi.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2007/05/13/security_expert_calls_feds_absurdly_secret/8272/"><SPAN id="intelliTXT" name="intelliTxt" nd="1"> Unjustified U.S. government secrecy is reaching absurd levels, say some experts who monitor classified information.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2007/05/13/security_expert_calls_feds_absurdly_secret/8272/"> "We're back to a real rising tide of secrecy," said Thomas Blanton, director of the <A class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="#" target="_blank" itxtdid="3592737">National Security</A> Archive at George Washington University, which last year helped expose a federal program to make secret millions of records once available to the public.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2007/05/13/security_expert_calls_feds_absurdly_secret/8272/"><P nd="4"> An example of absurd government secrecy, Blanton said, involved a CIA report on terrorism that described a "Group of the Martyr Ebenezer Scrooge" planning to "sabotage the annual courier flight of the Government of the North Pole" imperiling "Prime Minister and Chief Courier S. Claus." </P><P nd="5"> A government-watchdog group obtained the report from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. </P><P nd="6"> When it asked the CIA for the same report, it received the document entirely blacked out, apparently, in order to protect national security, the newspaper reported.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3F6BC89F-F500-463F-B7FA-87D499FCAE63/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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