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The Briefs Run From 1998

TL;DR

CIA.gov files 71 PDBs spanning February 1998 through the day after the attacks; a dump is not a rewritten decade.

MSM Perspective

The agency filed 1998 as the start. Friday does not extend the span.

X Perspective

Feeds treat a recap as a new archive year.

The 71 presidential daily briefs released Friday span February 1998 through the day after the attacks. [1] This paper printed the dump as a timed disclosure. A dump is not a rewritten decade. Print 1998. Do not print a new span.

CIA.gov called it the agency's largest declassification of PDB material tied to the attacks, more than 100 pages. [1] Redactions remain. Print the range. Leave a second carton to the edition that owns a second carton.

Friday recap that extends the PDB years is a feed, not Langley. Print 1998. Print not a new archive year.

Seventy-one briefs from 1998 remain seventy-one briefs from 1998 on this desk. Friday is not a new archive year. The span remains 1998.
-- ANNA WEBER, Berlin

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