I just heard a WJ caller say that the Bush administration is going

into the archives and changing our history as far back as 1950. Anybody know anything about this? What are they changing?

Also, the same caller made an interesting point. He said that Wolfowitz was put in charge of the World Bank to hide transactions that cover what happened to all the missing money. Like the 9 billion missing from Iraq.

but the second one makes sense.

said that. Now, this is weird: yesterday, when I heard about a fire (?) in an IRS building in DC, and that the National Archives were nearby, I flashed on the idea that the National Archives were vulnerable; then my mind jumped to the possibility that this bunch in office now would find it intriguing to alter our national history. Just a quick thought yesterday evening...

What changes have they made already? How would any changes affect us?

Destroying the archives would be like looting the museums in Iraq. By doing so they have literally erased a lot of biblical history and ancient history so that brilliant minds can recreate that history to their own advantage.

They have been re-classifying previously declassified docs from the Cold War eras and before.

Google the National Archives and document re-classification.

re-classify docs that go back so far? What would this affect besides Civil Rights?

Besides the civil rights fight, there were a few others things going on during that period, you know. :)

A lot of stuff that is being put back into the shadows has to do with operations carried out during the Cold War vs the Soviets by the CIA and other intelligence agencies. A number of these operations were failures and embarrassments to the agencies, but the documents do contain information about how operations were carried out and thus do expose "methods". And while these "methods" were used against an enemy that no longer exists, they might want to be used, in some manner, against the current enemy in the War on Terror.

Now having said that, this is all based upon an Executive order that Pres. Clinton signed which de-classified a large number of Cold War documents. The CIA objected highly when this order was signed, but complied. Along comes Bush, "the Un-Clinton", and suddenly the CIA gets the green light to take back all this stuff that had been put in the open.

Got it?

:)

I kept thinking of human rights and did not even consider strategies and techniques.

Thanks for the input!

I can think of a lot of rich and powerful men who would want their post WWII crimes hidden from history and from their own children.

Think of how this country hid and coddled some of the worst Nazis just to get a technological leg up.

Think of how the people in this country were treated in the name of anticommunism.

Think of what we could have been had the New Deal not been dismantled.

Think about all the leaders on the left who have been assassinated or "suicided."

There are a lot of bodies buried there. You can bet Poppy wants to hide a lot of them.

Prescott the Nazi and Poppy the insider for all CIA ops from at least the Bay of Pigs planning during the Eisenhower Admin.

....the job I'm sure some of this other news stuff, like complaining about spying on back accounts, is just one of many diversions.

I'm sure this administration is busy "fixing the books" before people start looking too close.

of his records with him. He said they wanted to go over the records before releasing them. He was allowed to do this. I dn't remember the City Council or any other law body opposing him in this. Nor have I heard that he has ever put his papers in any place where students or historians could review them. I am sure he will release a sanitized version of his tenure when he runs for President.

WHY are we (our legislators especially) ALLOWING these things to happen?