Inside the IC Interviews Henry Sokolski on “The over-classification problem in government”

What drove NPEC to focus on over-classification as a public policy problem?

 

What are some examples of how over-classification is harming America’s national security future?

 

Future wars will demand that we use and share much more information with our friends, our soldiers, our allies, and the public

 

What role do the thousands of classification guidebooks the US uses play in encouraging over-classification?

 

What was behind the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA’s) effort to go from 65 guidebooks to just one?

 

Why is it going to be difficult to reduce the urge to over-classify and why it might be easier to declassify?

 

The worst form of over-classification is official self-censorship

 

Getting advanced automation software tools to declassify over-classified documents will help us do so but only if we want to do so

 

What is Congress doing? What should it do?

 

Why self-governing governments like ours need eventually to make all secrets public