Dispute

I would disagree that the NSA is a 'left-leaning' organization. I would say it is 'indepedent'. NSA doesn't state a position on this on their home page - they only say they are a 'non-governmental, non-profit institution'. I searched for 'left-leaning National Security Archive', 'right-leaning National Security Archive', and a few other combos and permutations and found nothing. I did find plenty of links from all sorts of newspapers/websites/publication to 'independent National Security Archive'. Anecdotally, from looking at their site, and seeing a live presentation, I know they work like crazy to declassify documents in every U.S. Administration, regardless of Dem/Repub.


I would disagree that the NSA has any position on 'the Bush administration's Middle East policy'. The NSA strives for government openness, so they'll always be the scourge of current and former presidents, and will always be a powerful tool for democracy. I've seen nothing on ther website, and nothing written in articles/etc., to suggest they have any position on any government policy, ever - except for the classification of materials and things related. They've strongly advocated for government openness, but that's it, that I know of.

I didn't make changes b/c I'm scared after wrecking something last time I tried, and orig author seems to feel pretty strongly that NSA is a lefty org.

Thanks.

10:10, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

NSA has been described as "leftist" by Media Research at [850] and other similar pages on that site. They are also cited at [851] in a very liberal oriented light. I searched for 'liberal bias "National Security Archive"' on google and got a few hits. As to the Middle East comment, the most often cited work is [852] (go down to the Middle East section and read the work on Saddam), but I've certainly seen worse. I would disagree that they have an institutional position on Bush's Mid East policy, but would probably agree that it is a left leaning organization. btw, I changed your title to a section header. Hope you don't mind. - 01:32, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

"veiled in Secrecy"

If NSA typically relies on FOIA requests to get information, the term veiled in secrecy does not apply, and really the original wording, which was "otherwise be known" is more accurate. Does NSA affect the declassification of documents? If they do, the new wording is more appropriate. My research so far seems to reflect that the original writing is more accurate. - 10:55, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)