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And at his confirmation hearings for the CIA role, he admitted: "I do think we overclassify, and I think it's because we got bad habits."
Wired Top Stories Kevin Poulsen 2011
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As stated in the opening paragraph, the massive and bureaucratic military and civilian establishment running our Department of Defense is prone to overclassify and slow to declassify.
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My ongoing goal is to make older content more naturally searchable, instead of presenting heaps of not-necessarily-relevant stuff or another evil, trying to overclassify it and having that impractical granularity frustrate you (ugh).
Torley Lives 2008
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