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Praise for Obama's decision to declassify documents from the Argentine dictatorship

Saturday, March 19th 2016 - 05:41 UTC
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There is no doubt about the participation of the United States in Argentina’s bloody 1976-1983 military dictatorship, Human Rights Secretary Claudio Avruj said in Buenos Aires following the news that Washington announced it will declassify military and intelligence files from the Dirty War period ahead of Barack Obama’s visit to the country. Read full article

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  • Briton

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    they will deny everything.

    Mar 19th, 2016 - 09:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Hepatia

    The obvious question to ask is why are there any documents still to be released? That is what is the compelling national interest which is being served by holding back any documents? The answer is that there no valid reason why all the documents could not have been released more than 30 years ago.

    This case is just another example of the broken classification system and unjustifiable government secrecy.

    Mar 24th, 2016 - 12:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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