Last year, the government made 20.5 million decisions to classify government secrets, despite the fact that the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) says that more than 10% of the reviewed classifications lacked any justifiable basis. The ISOO is also supposed to receive data from executive agencies about how much material they classify and declassify, but Cheneyâs office stopped sending information in 2002. (Associated Press)
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