Because lying is not as effective as simply legally forbidding anyone to talk about it.

[grinninfoole]

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2004/07/05/translator_in_eye_of_storm_on_retroactive_classification/?rss_id=Boston%20Globe%20--%20Front%20Page

The Boston Globe reports that an FBI translator named Sibel Edmonds, hired after 9/11, found mistranslated memos pertinent to the 9/11 attacks and perhaps even a mole inside the FBI's translator bureau. The result: the FBI fired her, her story has been declared a "state secret", and information that had been released has now been retro-actively classified.

But, make it clear, we are NOT a police state.

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[crouchback.livejournal.com]

You can read all three documents at the Memoryhole (http://www.thememoryhole.org/spy/edmonds_letters.htm).

The FBI has done similar things in several administrations. Don't assume that they coordinate with anyone but themselves.

Remember, it stands for Famous But Incompetent. When information comes out that makes the Bureau look bad, they will move Heaven and Earth to cover it up..and that's been true since J. Edgar Hoover ran it.

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

From the article, it is clear that they coordinate with no one, not even themselves.