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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.

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.

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.

America’s system for protecting classified documents has spun out of control.

Columbia history professor Matthew Connelly ’90CC, codirector of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, discusses the research behind his explosive new book, The Declassification Engine, and the shocking things he learned along the way.