and speaking of rewriting history.... the purge is on.

CIA removing documents from National Archives :: UnderReported.com :: Surprising stories from the media and primary sources: "[David] Geyer commented that the practice of submitting an entire FRUS [Foreign Relations] manuscript to the CIA had resulted in the reclassification of documents located at the National Archives. NARA, however, merely added these documents to the list of withdrawn items without indicating that the documents had been declassified previously. Don McIlwain noted that the Department of Energy cited the Kyl-Lott amendment as justification for reclassifying previously declassified documents. CIA reviewers, however, claimed the right to remove documents from the open files that, in their view, had never been 'properly declassified.'"