Bit by bit, as with this one tiny release of a single Defense Department plan from 1949, we begin to understand how we got to where we are. But the process of disclosure has been too slow. Every U.S. government document that’s more than fifty years old should be released in full, right now. No redactions. As a first step.

Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Sec…, loc. 1241