Security Classification Reviews and the Search for Reform
By: RELYEA, Harold
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ArticlePublisher: New York : Elsevier , 1999Government Information Quarterly 16, 1, p. 5-27Abstract: In the early spring of 1997, the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy transmitted its final report to the President and the principal leaders of Congress. By the Commission's own account, this was the seventh "major review" of the security classification system to be conducted during the past 50 years. Why successive "major reviews" of the security classification program occurred may be discerned in the recurring theme each has imparted-overclassification remains a problem. The record of findings and recommendations arising from these "major reviews" is reviewed here with a view to gaining some insight into continuing difficulties within the security classification system and possible reforms
In the early spring of 1997, the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy transmitted its final report to the President and the principal leaders of Congress. By the Commission's own account, this was the seventh "major review" of the security classification system to be conducted during the past 50 years. Why successive "major reviews" of the security classification program occurred may be discerned in the recurring theme each has imparted-overclassification remains a problem. The record of findings and recommendations arising from these "major reviews" is reviewed here with a view to gaining some insight into continuing difficulties within the security classification system and possible reforms
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