Biden and Trump Endure the Dysfunction of Secrecy
Rampant over-classification is fuel for the Washington circus.
In an incisive letter to the Washington Post, Jim Geraghty, senior correspondent for National Review, nails the boiling controversy about Trump, Biden, and their handling of classified documents. The problem, he observes, is America’s overblown secrecy system more than the behavior of any individual.
Heck, documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy remain classified nearly 60 years after the fact. The National Archives says of declassifying JFK assassination material that “postponement decisions now affect less than 4,400 documents in the Collection” — like that’s a good thing. The National Archives says releasing the remaining documents could inflict “identifiable harm to military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or conduct of foreign relations where the identifiable harm is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure.” Really?
In the contretemps over pres…
