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The Best and Worst of 2007: Government Secrecy, Patrick Radden Keefe, The Century Foundation, 1/2/2008.

  • “America has a classification problem, and has for quite some time. The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan once observed that if all the newspapers in the United States printed all the classified documents produced by the government on any given day, there wouldn’t be room in the papers for anything else. An unassailable impulse to classify information that might endanger national security has morphed into a cumbersome and expensive bureaucratic system in which great swaths of government activity are shielded from public view. Classification has become both a reflex within the federal government and a powerful get-out-of-jail-free card for the executive branch.”
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