US classified documents have been turning up in places they shouldn't be in recent months. The Justice Department removed some classified documents from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago ...

Lawmakers in the Senate have renewed efforts to modernize the federal government’s document classification system, which officials claim is antiquated and impedes both transparency and cross-agency ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Yale Law School professor and former Pentagon special counsel Oona Hathaway discusses the classification system of government documents and how they ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The national intelligence director did not mince words: the government has an over-classification problem. “Over-classification ...

How can a classified document go missing? How can it wind up in the garage or private office of President Joe Biden or the private country club of former-President Donald Trump? The short answer is ...

A bipartisan group of senators unveiled legislation on Wednesday to reform the information classification system in order to reduce over-classification and prevent the mishandling of classified ...

Decades from now, when the government belatedly releases the Trump and Biden purloined records, Americans may well wonder what all the fuss was about. The document cases tied to the president and his ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has said little about the constitutional authority to govern classification of documents, but what it has said points to executive control of the secrecy system by virtue of the ...

The bipartisan Classification Reform for Transparency Act would establish a new task force to narrow the criteria for classifying documents and make it harder for agencies to exempt records from ...