The system for restricting public access to government information is unsuited for the modern age, and prone to both overuse and compromise, say experts. Now, a congressional advisory panel is ...

Bipartisan Group Looks to Fix ‘Hopelessly Obsolete’ Classification System Legislation is aimed at reducing over-classification and improving the handling of secrets.

Lawmakers in the Senate have renewed efforts to modernize the federal government’s document classification system, which officials claim is antiquated and impedes both transparency and cross ...

Over-classification of government secrets both undermines national security by blocking the intelligence community’s ability to share critical information and “erodes the basic trust that our ...

What are classified documents? The US government has a formal system of protecting information that, if disclosed, could hurt national security.

Critics are right to be alarmed that the replacement of nonpartisan experts with political loyalists threatens democratic ...

Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines warns "deficiencies" in the government's classification system pose a national security threat.

The witness, J. William Leonard, the government’s former classification czar, planned to testify about the harm to democracy represented by the case — not from Drake leaking information about ...