The secrets our government keeps from us — and why

我们的政府向我们隐瞒的秘密——以及原因

Apple News In Conversation

2023-05-12

25 分钟
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Documents marked “top secret” have been turning up in a lot of unexpected places recently. But America has another problem with classified documents: There’s too many of them. By some estimates, it would take 250 years for these documents to be reviewed and released to the public. On the latest episode of Apple News In Conversation, host Shumita Basu spoke with Matthew Connelly, author of The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America’s Top Secrets, about the government’s culture of secrecy.
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  • This is in conversation from Apple News.

  • I'm Shemitah Basu.

  • Today, How America's Problem with Classified Documents Makes Us Less Safe We've been hearing a lot about classified documents lately, turning up in all the wrong places.

  • Today, the National Archives confirmed that it found classified information among the documents Donald Trump removed from the White House and brought to Mar?

  • A Lago.

  • A small number of classified documents had been found in the garage of President Biden's Wilmington residence and in a room next door.

  • So the material was in a locked garage?

  • Yes, as well as my Corvette.

  • Yet more classified documents slipped out of the White House and into the private home of a top official.

  • These documents were uncovered at the Indiana home of former Vice President Mike Pence.

  • The whole point of classification is to protect national secrets, things like war plans, intelligence sources, and sensitive communications.

  • And there's a whole system around how classified documents get stored, reviewed, and possibly marked for declassification years later when they're no longer deemed sensitive.