Control the past.. control the future,...national-security policy, the battle ... control is heating up.

Slate writes:
http://www.slate.com/id/2136480/?nav=navoa

Those who control the past control the future, Orwell famously wrote in 1984. In the realm of national-security policy, the battle for this control is heating up.


.........we are not talking here about secrets that have anything to do with "national security" as anyone might reasonably define the term. In many cases, we are talking about documents that were publicly released—and have since been widely disseminated—.......

...the official record of U.S. foreign policy was in danger of becoming "an official lie." ...