Reps. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) have introduced a bill to slow the proliferation of document classification and security clearances.

US classified documents have been turning up in places they shouldn’t be in recent months. The Justice Department removed some classified documents from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a ...

The intelligence community is restarting work on both the classification review and the so-called damage assessment related to former President Donald Trump’s storage of classified materials at ...

For years, officials have stamped documents 'secret' in a lowest-common-denominator system that did not penalize over-classification and made declassification difficult and time-consuming.

President Biden orders review of 9/11 document classification nearly 20 years later The president’s move was lauded by families of victims who died on that fateful day nearly 20 years ago.

Elected officials are inundated by documents and information that they never wanted or requested, and the classification rules are used by the deep state to limit what the elected officials can say.

Trump Raid: What Each Document's Classification Means. Published Aug 15, 2022 at 1:01 PM EDT Updated Aug 16, 2022 at 2:43 AM EDT. By . Lauren Giella is a Senior Reporter based in New York.

Unnecessary classification of government documents costs upwards of $18 billion per year in maintenance costs, and inhibits information sharing across federal agencies, Peters said in a statement.