Pentagon watchdog: Hegseth shared classified information that could have been intercepted by adversaries

The Defense Department's inspector general said in a report that Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth has used unsecured devices and ...

Pentagon did not conduct routine investigation on whether Hegseth damaged national security by sharing strike plans on Signal

The Pentagon did not conduct a routine investigation into the impact of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s disclosure of ...
ExecutiveGov

DOW CIO Issues New Instruction for Commercial WLAN Devices & Security

The new instruction designates WPA3-Enterprise 192-bit mode or the latest Wi-Fi Alliance equivalent as the standard ...
The Washington Post

Agencies Use Contradictory Rules for Classifying Information

U.S. intelligence agencies have contradictory rules that govern classification of information, including inconsistencies over what would constitute harm if the information were disclosed, according to ...
The Real News Network

Too Many Secrets: Fixing the Government’s Broken System for Classifying Information

The sweeping spying and surveillance programs revealed by the Snowden leaks have raised serious questions about whether the United States government values the privacy of foreign governments and its ...
East Bay Times

Bush administration has been classifying information that was publicly available

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration has begun designating as secret information the government provided even to its enemy, the former Soviet Union: the numbers of strategic weapons in the U.S.
Stars and Stripes

Classifying information for no good reason is hurting military effectiveness, report warns

Combat operations and cooperation with allied forces may be hindered by the U.S. government’s penchant for overclassifying information, a study by a nonpartisan research group has found.
EUobserverOpinion

Secrecy Tracker: The EU’s plan to classify (almost) everything

The latest Secrecy Tracker warns that a proposed EU law could restrict public access to documents, while also covering ...
Chicago Tribune

5 myths about classified information

The controversy over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email account while she was secretary of state has centered on whether she used it to send or receive classified messages. This focus obscures ...
National Review

More on Clinton’s Classified-Information Problem

The Man Who Charmed the Women on The View, & Singing for the Poor in Rome Medicine at Michigan Shamefully Honors Jack Kevorkian Delighting in Certain Violence: Guarding Our Souls in the 2025 USA Memo ...
The Verge

Government classifying less new information than ever, but it’s hardly making a dent

In the wake of WikiLeaks and the Bradley Manning case, the US government’s penchant for locking away seemingly mundane information by declaring it classified has been roundly criticized by activists ...
The Nation

The Original Sin Is We Classify Too Much

A declassified document released by the FBI on September 11, 2021, regarding the investigation into the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The document was released in response to President Joe ...