[THEHILL] The B.O. regime is considering a proposal to kill off the lowest tier of classification amid escalating scrutiny on top government officials’ ability to safeguard sensitive information.| Won't help Hilarity... |
"Please comment on whether the CONFIDENTIAL classification level can be eliminated from your agencies’ guides and the negative impacts this might have on mission success," Clapper wrote to the heads of the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency and three other federal intelligence offices in his three-page memo.
"This action could promote transparency," Clapper added, by "simplifying agency classification practices," focusing only on sensitive material "that would cause significant and demonstrable harm to national security if improperly released" and reflect the fact "that few, if any" clearances are issued at the "confidential" level alone.
Additionally, Clapper noted, the United Kingdom eliminated its "confidential" level of government secrecy in 2014, so following suit would "align" the two countries’ systems. In addition to "confidential," the government also marks sensitive information as "secret" and "top secret."
Eliminating the lowest level of classification would have a dramatic effect on the number of classified documents created by the government.
It also could have beneficial effects for Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton... sometimes described as
For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillaryand at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as
Another Jeremiah S. Black...
, whose private email server contained thousands of messages now considered classified. The vast majority of the roughly 2,000 documents on Clinton’s machine are considered confidential.
If we downgrade the remainder of the Clinton emails to CONFIDENTIAL, then eliminate CONFIDENTIAL, the email problem is solved, right? Thanks Jim, you're a fok'n genius.