Opinion: Classification reform of national security information stalls

Writing in Secrecy News, Steven Aftergood says that an initiative to reduce overclassification of national security information has produced no significant results. Obama announced the initiative in December of 2009.

The Department of Defense (DOD) with the greatest portfolio of classified documents did not met its December 31, 2010 deadline for producing regulations for implementing change, and most DOD components have not begun reviewing their classification guides. -db

From a commentary in Secrecy News, April 12, 2011 by Steven Aftergood.

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