FBI wants dead beltway journalist's papers before anyone else sees them

[Rose Siding]

Murray Waas interned for this guy, according to TPM's Muckraker.

During his life and career as a muckraking journalist in Washington, Jack Anderson cultivated secret sources throughout the halls of government -- sources who passed on information that allowed Anderson to investigate and write about Watergate, CIA assassination schemes, and countless scandals. His syndicated column, Washington Merry-Go-Round, earned him the enmity of the corrupt and powerful -- so much so that during the Watergate years, associates of Nixon had discussed assassinating the columnist. They never went through with the plot. Anderson died last December at the age of 83.

His archive, some 200 boxes now being held by George Washington University's library, could be a trove of information about state secrets, dirty dealings, political maneuverings, and old-fashioned investigative journalism, open for historians and up-and-coming reporters to see.

But the government wants to see the documents before anyone else.
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Were he alive today, Jack Anderson "would probably come out of his skin at the thought of the FBI going through his papers," said Kevin N. Anderson, the journalist's son. If papers were taken -- even if some were stamped "declassified" and returned -- that would "destroy any academic, scholarly, and historic value" of the archive, Kevin Anderson adds.

http://chronicle.com/free/2006/04/2006041801n.htm

[HereSince1628]

1. Wasn't Jack Anderson a Republican? His sources would be too, yes?

Now just who wouldn't want all his papers to see the light of day?

Cheney is getting out of hand with his need to make everything secret.

[simonm]

2. Scan em

Someone should put all documents through a high speed scanner for digitization. That way, his work will never be lost.

[Demeter]

3. And Then Post Them On the Internet

Then they will never be corrupted, suppressed, ignored, or dismissed.

[bemildred]

4. And hurry. nt