For too long the government has classified information which has no business being classified. When I came to the Senate, I was a member of the Armed Services Committee and I remember that I went to many classified briefings, only to be informed, in great detail, of everything that was in the New York Times and Washington Post that morning. The most frustrating thing was that we could not talk about the information from those meetings because it was classified.
William Helms: “For too long the government has classified information which has no business being classified. When I came to the…”
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Discussing issues related to government classification of information.
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