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• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Brief Article

"The federal government last year spent $6.5 billion to create 14 million new classified documents, a 60 percent increase over 2001," reports Audrey Hudson of The Washington Times. Suspecting that the Bush administration might be over-classifying, Reps. David Obey (D-Wisc.) and Martin Sabo (D-Minn.) recently complained to the Government Accountability Office: "We are baffled as to how a telephone list containing only government...