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Press Clip from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

20.5M decisions to classify documents

SOURCE: Pete Yost // Associated Press

16 Jul 2007 // There were 20.5 million decisions to classify government secrets last year, and a report to the president found serious shortcomings in the process.

The Information Security Oversight Office said more than 1 in 10 documents it reviewed lacked a basis for classification, "calling into question the propriety" of the decisions to place them off limits to public disclosure.

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