Connelly, Matthew James, 1967-

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January 19, 2023

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Is The U.S. Gov't Designating Too Many Documents As Classified'?

Historian Matthew Connelly says government records are marked as "classified" three times every second — and many of them will never be declassified. We talk about what that means for the public and how this might change. His new book is The Declassification Engine.

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