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With President Joe Biden currently under investigation by the FBI, the public is beginning to wonder why the mishandling of classified documents has become a recurring story. The government, it seems, may require improved security measures.  The investigation first began in Nov. 2022 and the FBI has since located and seized multiple classified documents from...

-- i dont even want to use the word system now. there is not a declassification system now. so how do things get classified when they do? >> it is a rude goldberg machine. if you looked at a diagram it would have dozens of boxes, and many more arrows. the fact is, just reviewing records to see which ones might be nuclear secrets as an incredibly involved complex process. and it just does not work. >> professor matthew connelly, the new don quixote of government classification joins us tonight. t...

Columbia university. he is the author of the declassification engine, wiped history reveals about americas top secrets. thank you very much for joining us tonight professor, and thank you very much for picking up the daniel patrick moynahan work and carrying it forward, as someone i am sure will be doing after you, long after you, since the progress is basically nonexistent. what are our oldest secrets, the oldest secrets that the government is currently still holding as top secret that none of ...

If the dangers of excessive government secrecy are so widely acknowledged, why has nothing been done about it? From Patrick Radden Keefe for Foreign Affairs.

In “The Declassification Engine,” Matthew Connelly traces the evolution of America’s obsession with secrecy and the alarming implications for our understanding of the past.

The investigations into handling of sensitive documents by former presidents and vice presidents have brought problems with the classification system ba...

The ongoing investigations into handling of sensitive documents by former presidents and vice presidents have brought potential problems with the classi...

There are several reasons that this document drama happened: There are too many people with classified access and entirely too many documents to keep up with.

Recent discoveries suggest that mishandled classified documents may not be that rare – the result of a “tsunami” of government secrets.

Historian Matthew Connelly says government records are marked as classified three times every second — and many of them will never be declassified. His new book is The Declassification Engine.