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And the consciousness that the daughter is talking about, and it is a top ig of debate and national security community talking about issues of overclassification, and whether the current classification system needs information sharing as well as information secrecy, and so it being a bipartisan problem means it is possible that you could see meaningful reform, but as francesca said, it is not clear if it is coming from the national level. >> if you could standby, because we have breaking news just into cnn. the breaking news is regarding the trip by secretary blinken, the planned trip, and o...

Though it doesn't change the larger point. given how crazy the classification system is, the wonder is that we don't find more top secret documents littered throughout the houses of government officials. in 1998, then senator daniel patrick moynahan, who served on the select committee wrote a book titled "secrecy, the american experience." in it he lamented the rise of culture of secrecy in american government which he believed was bad for foreign policy and dangerous to democracy. on the first point, moynahan argued that many of the government's biggest mistakes were a result of its reluctanc...

Documents and defied direct requests from the justice department. that is an important difference. though it doesn't change the larger point. given how crazy the classification system is, the wonder is that we don't find more top secret documents littered throughout the houses of government officials. in 1998, then senator daniel patrick moynahan, who served on the select committee wrote a book titled "secrecy, the american experience." and he lamenting the rise of culture of secrecy in american government which he believed was bad for foreign policy and dangerous to democracy. on the first po...

Whereas in the case of donald trump, they knew and they asked for them. they asked nicely, the negotiated, and there was a subpoena, and then there was a search warrant. and none of that was necessary in these other circumstances. so in terms of the law and in terms of what is a prosecutable case, one is, and two so far are not. >> right. the fact that we are talking about pence, and biden, lawmakers from both parties want to reform the classification system. take a listen. >> what is going on around here is my reaction. obviously there is a systemic problem in the executive branch. two admini...

Director of national intelligence couldn't tell them more about the documents in a closed hearing. we're getting a fresh sound bite from arvil haynes about issues that she has with over classification. >> first, we need to continue working on the development of a system that develops the appropriate classification system and minimizes what is classified as an initial matter. second we need to facilitate the down grading and declassification of information as it ages to promote sharing and disclosure when possible to promote a better public debate and enhangsed account ability and trust and to ...