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The intelligence community overclassifies everything.
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Critics say that the government overclassifies and that a sweeping anti-leak law could be a blank check for bureaucrats to cover up their mistakes.
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Woodward's book reveals a secrecy system that is truly ineffective, one that massively overclassifies at the same time that it tolerates open and selective leaking from the top about important secrets that is not obviously principled or in the national interest but that does render the system non-credible.
Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post Jack Goldsmith 2010
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