Boing Boing: Feebs demand chance to censor muckracking journo's papers

source: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/04/18/feebs_demand_chance_.html

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Feebs demand chance to censor muckracking journo's papers
Derek sez, "George Wash. U archive has the papers of Jack Anderson who investigated and wrote about Watergate, CIA assassination schemes, and countless scandals. The FBI is trying to demand first access to the papers so they can remove anything they deem 'top-secret'."

Were he alive today, Jack Anderson "would probably come out of his skin at the thought of the FBI going through his papers," said Kevin N. Anderson, the journalist's son. If papers were taken -- even if some were stamped "declassified" and returned -- that would "destroy any academic, scholarly, and historic value" of the archive, Kevin Anderson adds.
The FBI would not comment for this article.

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