NARA may miss declassification deadline.

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The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has acknowledged that it may not complete its three-year program to evaluate 400 million official historic documents for possible declassification by the December 2013 deadline.

According to Federal Computer Week, the "Bi-annual Report on Operations of the National Declassification Center," which was released by NARA in January, attributes delays to a lack of prior reviews of the documents to ensure they do not contain sensitive information and restricted data related to nuclear weapons, as required under national defense authorization laws.

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NARA's National Declassification Center was formed by President Barack Obama in 2010 and assigned to clear a huge backlog of documents, all 25 years old or older. It had finished processing 31%, or about 123...