View the third NDC Open Public Forum

VIEW THE THIRD NDC OPEN PUBLIC FORUM

NOTE - THERE IS A GLITCH IN THIS RECORD - they will try to correct it. 

The Third Annual National Declassification Center (NDC) Public Open Forum - YouTube

On August 29, 2012, the National Declassification Center hosted its third annual Public Open Forum at the William McGowan Theater at the National Archives building. The forum featured a status report by NDC Director Sheryl Shenberger,two interagency panels that addressed quality assurance measures and improved declassification processing, as well as a question and answer session with members of the public.

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“The National Declassification Center (NDC) at the National Archives held a public forum on Aug. 29 to obtain public input on declassification.  The NDC is trying to address a 400 million page backlog of classified records at the Archives.  During the public question period, journalist Jeff Morley (formerly with the Washington Post) asked that NDC reconsider its decision earlier this year not to speed up processing of 1,171 classified CIA records related to the JFK assassination by the 50th anniversary in 2013 (otherwise they remain secret until at least 2017 and perhaps indefinitely beyond).  The NDC/Archives response to Morley's request was a flat no.  The CIA representative on the panel said, "My agency has nothing to say on that topic".  Another questioner, Jim Lesar, elicited the admission that it would take approximately two months to process that quantity of complex documents.  There were six public questions asked at the forum and three of them were from people seeking declassification of the JFK assassination records, the most commented topic.  The flat negative response to the JFK rrecords issue cast a pall over the proceedings.  There were 100 plus people in attendance, many of them government employees.” 

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PRESS RELEASE

HISTORICAL RESEACHERS TO PICKET THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES

     Historical researchers will picket the National Archives on Constitution Avenue between Seventh and Ninth Streets, N.W. near the Visitor’s Entrance on Monday, October 8, 2012 between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 Noon and distribute an open letter to David S. Ferriero, the Archivist of the United States.

     The purpose of the picket will be to protest the decision by the National Archives not to declassify documents related to the assassination of President John Kennedy, a decision made at the request of the Central Intelligence Agency.

     The National Archives' decision is in violation of President Barack Obama' executive order of Tuesday, December 29, 2009 that "no information may remain classified
indefinitely" as part of sweeping overhaul of the executive branch's system protecting
classified national security information.

     President Obama also established a new National Declassification Center at the National Archives to speed the process of declassifying historical documents by centralizing their review. The President set a four year deadline for processing a 400-million-page backlog of such records that originally included the JFK assassination records to be released on the 50^th anniversary of Kennedy’s death, but later reneged on that commitment.

The October 8^th picket is in protest that decision by the Archives and the continued withholding of JFK assassination records past the 50^th anniversary of the assassination.

 50 YEARS IS LONG ENOUGH! – FREE THE JFK ASSASSINATION RECORDS – IN OUR LIFTIME