Senators Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Reform the Security Classification System

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"The government systematically overclassifies too much information, at a dangerous cost to both the nation's security and the public trust. At the same time, we too often fail to protect the nation's most important secrets. As chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I think it is clear that our security classification system is badly in need of change. Given the explosion in digital records, the status quo is no longer tenable. We've got too many people with access to a system that is devoid of accountability and has grown increasingly byzantine, bureaucratic, and outmoded. We need to protect our national security secrets, and then declassify those secrets when protections are no longer necessary. It's time for Congress to take action and establish accountability."

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