CNN reported the availability to the public of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Access to Archival Databases System (AAD) in this April 5 article. The database was actually released on February 12, and represents a substantial e-gov program to provide a single user interface for researchers to facilitate searching, retrieving and dowloading approximately 50 million online records created by 20 federal government agencies that currently comprise 350 databases. The plan calls for an expansion to include data from 500 databases.