Reply #13: "Who's Afraid of the PDB?" [View All]

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

A good article from earlier this week by the director of the National Security Archive. Basically stripping away the "Ultra-ultra sensitive" mystique that the PDB gets from the media (ie "According to the CIA's own history of its presidential briefings, roughly 40 percent of what the PDB covers is addressed in the newspapers.") & arguing that the August PDB could easily be released with only sources & other genuinely sensetive material blacked out.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2097476/

& see also:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB116/index.htm


But in answer to your question -- the longer they delay in releasing even a heavily redacted version, the more suspicious many will get as to what he's hiding.