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How Federal Classification Works (and why it’s a problem)

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The Unauthorized Disclosure of Which Reasonably Could Be Expected to Cause Grave Damage to the National Security

The most important thing here is it's something that could reasonably be expected to cause damage, right? Reasonably expected to cause some damage to national security. And then it just goes up from there with tiny little modifiers to let you know the severity has increased. Then we've got secret. Secret secrets are no fun because it could like get you killed. The unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably once again could beexpected to cause serious damage to the national security. It's a purposely vague, broad and shifting term.

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