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Ron Wyden: “It often seems that just plain old bureaucratic inertia gets in the way of declassifying documents that the public…”

On the recordSeptember 21, 2011
It often seems that just plain old bureaucratic inertia gets in the way of declassifying documents that the public really has a right to know.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden highlights bureaucratic delays in declassifying important public information.

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