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Ron Wyden: “The point of classifying documents is to protect national security. And often it seems that documents are classified to…”

On the recordSeptember 21, 2011
The point of classifying documents is to protect national security. And often it seems that documents are classified to protect somebody's political security.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden discusses the dual purpose of document classification.

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