President Donald Trump might hasten the pace of change regarding marijuana in the eyes of the federal government and the Drug ...

President Donald Trump said Monday he is considering whether to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug and would ...

Chaffetz, who retired in 2017, said the government had spent $100 billion over the previous decade on “security classification activities” – much of them unnecessary, and some of them harmful.

Unnecessary classification of government documents costs upwards of $18 billion per year in maintenance costs, and inhibits information sharing across federal agencies, Peters said in a statement.

She added that while over-classification is a big issue, another that needs attention is the retention of government records, especially during presidential transitions.

Expanding his drive to open government, President Barack Obama is ordering two studies of whether the government is classifying too much information and using too many different ways to keep it ...

The government classifies all kinds of information, including informants’ identities, war plans and diplomatic cables. There are three broad categories of classification: confidential, secret ...

Classification of Government Documents Yale Law School professor and former Pentagon special counsel Oona Hathaway discusses the classification system of government documents and how they should ...

Empowering a small and relatively unknown office is critical to reforming the federal government’s records classification system, according to a 35-year government veteran who led the office.

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