Remember this article about Bush blocking the release of the results of the congressional inquiry into 9/11?

At the center of the dispute is a more-than-800-page secret report prepared by a joint congressional inquiry detailing the intelligence and law-enforcement failures that preceded the attacks-including provocative, if unheeded warnings, given President Bush and his top advisers during the summer of 2001.

The report was completed last December; only a bare-bones list of findings with virtually no details was made public. But nearly six months later, a working group of Bush administration intelligence officials assigned to review the document has taken a hard line against further public disclosure. By refusing to declassify many of its most significant conclusions, the administration has essentially thwarted congressional plans to release the report by the end of this month, congressional and administration sources tell NEWSWEEK. In some cases, these sources say, the administration has even sought to reclassify some material that was already discussed in public testimony-a move one senate staffer described as ludicrous.

The National Security Archive has issued a report about the government’s overclassification of documents :

Nevertheless, the Archive is convinced, as are others in and out of government, that no small number of declassification review decisions are dubious in the extreme, which in turn reflects a broader problem: that too much federal government information has been classified. Honest people disagree over whether overclassification is a pervasive phenomenon, but over the years, government officials and advisers have treated it as a serious problem. As far back as 1970, the Pentagon’s Defense Science Board observed that, “overclassification has contributed to the credibility gap that evidently exists between the government and an influential segment of the population.”

Probably the most shocking example of overclassification involves a Ford-era “Weekly Situation Report on International Terrorism” issued by the CIA that had intelligence about an unusual terrorist threat :

A new organization of uncertain makeup, using the name “Group of the Martyr Ebenezer Scrooge,” plans to sabotage the annual courier flight of the Government of the North Pole. Prime Minister and Chief Courier S. Claus has been notified and security precautions are being coordinated worldwide by the CCCT Working Group.