(np) (political) the Big O institutes a new Cointelpro?

[Robert Mahnke]

Presumably you're trying to be cynical about Obama's recent initiative
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/29/AR2009122902770.html),
though I'm not sure why.  "Decently funding" the National Archive
would not do much to change classification decisions made elsewhere.

On 1/25/10, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Robert Mahnke wrote:
> > Apropos of this subject, then there's this:
> > http://bit.ly/5JPIzy ("Bush Pentagon Hired Conspiracy Theorist As Al
> > Qaeda Specialist").  If you can't beat 'em, join 'em?
> >
>
>
> the conspiracy that Ms Mylroie discerned was that Saddam was
> behind 9-11.
> This would not be a rumor that the Bush Administration would
> seek to defuse in the first place...
>
>
> that said, it would be great if Obama would hire (openly, mind you)
> some archivists, known to be suspicious of government, to organize recently
> declassified material... but not create a new department to do so,
> nor have them fork around in the blogs under false pretenses,
> just decently fund the National Archive and reverse some of Bush's
> secrecy orders
>