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Originally Posted by turbonium
As for my "implying..some great secret", I don't have proof that they do contain anything significant, but the continued refusal to release them leaves me with some doubt that they are completely without significance. In contrast, you doubt they would reveal important information unknown to the public. But as I said, our opinions are irrelevant to the release of the documents.
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The mills of government grind slow and exceedingly fine. Lots of documents are classified for no good reason that the layperson can see. (Documents, as I recall, about food transport for troops during WWI are the oldest still-classified documents.) Possibly it's because they aren't properly catalogued. (Though librarians would spell that "catalog" in honour of Mellville Dewey, who'd be horrified at my superfluous "u" and wanted to spell his name "Dui.") Possibly it's government inertia, which may be one of the greatest forces in human history. However, speculation that they wouldn't still be classified unless there was something to them is, frankly, meritless. There are
lots of reasons documents are classified, and they're seldom good.