According to the American State Department, 30m pages of once-public declassified documents have been withdrawn, while another 20m that have been declassified but not yet released are awaiting review (a task that is expected to take five years).
The hearing was, of course, held in secret, and we would never have known about it had not the furore over Snowden led to some of this stuff being retrospectively declassified.
The documents, which include recently declassified cables from the Australian high commission, reinforce the view that Gukurahundi – a Shona word for the spring rains that sweep away dry season chaff - was closely associated with Mugabe's Zanu-PF party's efforts to eliminate opposition groups after independence in 1980.
JIEDDO also evidently used aliases in a broader manner, mined Facebook and Twitter to collect information and inappropriately accessed an NSA database, but sections on those practices are blacked out of the declassified report.
Another power set to expire, the "roving wiretap" provision, has been linked to abuse in declassified documents; and the third, the "lone wolf" provision, has never been used, the FBI confirmed to the Guardian.
The Pentagon's taskforce charged with stopping insurgent bombs has for years inappropriately acted as an intelligence agency, according to a declassified internal report obtained by the Guardian.
The newly declassified government archives from 1984 paint a different picture and may in time prompt meaningful re-assessment.
According to the information-security oversight office of the National Archives, the government declassified 7.2m pages in 1989, 12.3m in 1990 and in 1995 the most recent year for which figures are available no fewer than 69m, mostly because of Mr Clinton's decision to release at a swoop 44m pages of musty documents, many on the second world war.
Other declassified information, not from Mr Gejdenson, vividly shows the Bush administration standing firm.
Published by Stanford University Press as part of the Cold War International History Project, the book draws heavily on newly declassified archives in Budapest, Moscow and America, and extensive interviews by the author.Mr Gati is strong on Nagy, the leader of the doomed revolution.
He also threatened to kill Uganda's president, Yoweri Museveni.Zanzibar's parliament agreed unanimously to outlaw homosexuality.No warningThe White House declassified a memo given to George Bush on August 6th 2001, which touched on possible al-Qaeda operations in America.
