Let us all praise the National Security Archive

True as few are to the ideal of a truly open society, they're relentless in their mission to gain access (for all of us) to secret government documents, especially those dealing with national security issues. This week, they've posted new documents on the Rosenberg case and on the U.S. involvement with the 1973 coup d'etat in Chile. Still a major resource for Cold War historians, the Archive's range of activities has long reached well beyond the old East-West conflict. They not only deserve many visits to their website, they also deserve our monetary support. Finally, they need other organizations to join them in their efforts to counter tendencies among those in power to keep secret from the rest of us much more than would be warranted by national security concerns.