http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1004/102704nj1.htm
This month's Wired magazine had an interesting article on this elevated rate classified document spending as well. Even more troubling? The incredible dropoff in the rate of document DEclassification since 2001. This is one of the chief areas where our concerns exist -- the combination of vastly heightened secrecy with the implications of various disputed parts of measures like the Patriot Act.
Why are we being kept so much deeper in the dark during a time of such wide-reaching powers on behalf of federal monitoring and spying?