Historian Matthew Connelly Explains the Classification Fiasco
The problem Isn’t Biden or Trump. It’s how America keeps secrets.
The media is chasing the classified documents fiasco like it’s spy vs. spy, Trump vs. Biden. But on The Problem With Jon Stewart podcast, Matthew Connelly, professor of history at Columbia and author of The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America’s Top Secrets, gives us the inside scoop on how unwieldy our system for keeping state secrets has become, who it’s really designed to protect, and how we might revamp it so that it can actually, you know, keep a secret.
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