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ncteechur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-08-06 09:30 AM
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Well then--if I were president I would declassify...
all the documents pertaining to the first Gulf War.

all the documents around the Kennedy assassination

what exactly is at Area 51 and open the place for tours


What would you declassify??
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bullimiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-08-06 09:32 AM
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1. everything. i would end secrecy. if we cant do it in the light of day
we shouldnt be doing it at all.

i would have 100% open government in the sunshine.
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-08-06 09:38 AM
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6. It's a nice idea, but impossible.
Literally impossible, as well as impossible in Realpolitik. Government is too big, too distributed.
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bullimiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-08-06 10:21 AM
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8. i expect anyone trying anything like this would find themselves
dead pretty quick. ie robert kennedy.

the corrupt are pretty entrenched.
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boobooday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-08-06 09:32 AM
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2. Cheney's energy policy meeting notes
Minutes of all meetings between corporate and political leaders.
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yourout Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-08-06 09:35 AM
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3. Add the following.
Edited on Sat Apr-08-06 09:36 AM by yourout
Iran-Contra documentation
All 9/11 confiscated video....especially the one taken from the convenience store by the Pentagon.
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-08-06 09:35 AM
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4. OH my, there is so much...
Edited on Sat Apr-08-06 09:37 AM by acmejack
How about all the Iran Contra papers,
The things in the Bush 1 Library that * classified,
* National Guard service records,
Pearl Harbor Historical Papers
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-08-06 09:35 AM
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5. Everything related to Iran-Contra and US policy in Afghanistan in
the 1980s. Who did they talk to? What was offered?

Also, any documents pertaining to the laggardly response in Rwanda in 1994.
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-08-06 10:21 AM
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7. I would declassify the list of what is classified, n/t
Edited on Sat Apr-08-06 10:21 AM by valerief
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