From Secrecy News:
“No information may remain classified indefinitely,” according to a draft of an Obama Administration executive order on national security classification policy.
As a statement of principle, this may seem tame and self-evident. But until now, no Administration has been willing to make such a categorical statement about the temporal limits of national security secrecy, and it may have significant policy consequences.
See this side-by-side comparison between the August 2009 draft and the current executive order.