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-- i don't 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. this is a very important book. the declassification engine -- what history reveals about americas to...

Documents 50 years old. that is not what they are there to do. it ought to be given to a center, preferably in the national archives, whose job it is to say, we will do it for. you >> senator moynahan expanded on those ideas in his 18th book titled simply secrecy, published in 1988. by yale university press -- it was not exactly a bestseller and nothing came of the idea of establishing a real declassification system. now a full generation later, the problem is unchanged except for being much, much worse. the government has simply given up on even trying to count the number of official secrets ...