Doomsought
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Honestly, I think classification should require judicial approval along the same lines as a search warrant.
Some Military Operations are still not being disclosed.
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Panzerkraken
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Technically, it does.
There's a specific classification authority that usually resides at a command level, and is based on precedence and threat analysis. They determine the specific criteria for classification of categories of information, which is then documented into classification guides. All the other classification is then derived from these original classification instructions.
However, lots of people mismark their documents, or don't take any care in creating them, which leads to over-classification, which makes the declassification process take longer, since the people with the declassification authority are generally busy with other important matters, they're not likely to spend the time needed to go through a document and review it carefully for information. They're reluctant to do so lightly, because essentially if they miss something, they run the risk of creating spillage, which would be bad.
There's a specific classification authority that usually resides at a command level, and is based on precedence and threat analysis. They determine the specific criteria for classification of categories of information, which is then documented into classification guides. All the other classification is then derived from these original classification instructions.
However, lots of people mismark their documents, or don't take any care in creating them, which leads to over-classification, which makes the declassification process take longer, since the people with the declassification authority are generally busy with other important matters, they're not likely to spend the time needed to go through a document and review it carefully for information. They're reluctant to do so lightly, because essentially if they miss something, they run the risk of creating spillage, which would be bad.
As Panzer pointed out, but also, the amount of documents that are written with C to TS level daily every person who works inn such fields that has such clearance are considered classification originators, and we follow a guide to use from the highest level.
People do over classify in fear of under classifying.
To put in perspective every line of a classified document has to be classified. Well every sentence/paragraph. SO yeah, having to classify a document based on guidelines set by the highest level to make sure I do not over or under classify is a pain, but at my level and job I generally only use one or two types.
paulobrito
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Many because the bureaucracy is slow and the number of people that can analyze then and decree that they are not secret anymore is few to deal with so many reports.