Finally, Some Sanity on Security Classifications

The Public Interest Declassification Board is calling for a streamlining of the declassification process.

Speaking as someone who has held a secret clearance^*, the biggest problem is complacency, and this is driven by over-classification.

When everything you touch, even things that are ordinary and are actually publicly known, is classified, are classified, nothing is classified. It becomes background noise.

^*Just in case you are wondering if the fact that a complete and total pratt like me got a secret clearance means that we are all doomed, the answer is yes.