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30 year rule used for Hillsborough - WHY?

justice 4 the 96 | 22.04.2009 17:40 | Culture | History | Repression

why the 30 yr rule for Hillsborough

How comes there was a 30 year rule on Hillsborough in 1989? (meaning no files could be released for 30 years). Normarly they use this rule is used for "national security" - not for when South Yorkshire Pigs fuck up. I only found this out when
the Jackie Smith said files will be released 10 yrs earlier. Something smells of day old kippers to me

justice 4 the 96

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Thirty Year Rule

22.04.2009 20:18

This is frequently misused. Not only in the case of Hillsborough but in such things as the "Battle of the Beanfields" and so on. it is not merely when there is a fuck up but also when there is no fuck up. There is a culture of secrecy. Even now, the CCTV for the second of April could be slapped in irons for thirty years - just because it is the "standard" process.

an archivist

Perhaps not 10 years early

22.04.2009 23:55

Perhaps what Smith actually meant to say was that files were being released 20 years late.

Brian B