The intelligence community's decision to broadly classify much of its information and documents erodes public trust in the government and impedes decisionmaking, National Intelligence Director Avril ...

In 1975, Congress established the first intelligence oversight committees. The Watergate break-in had prompted a constitutional crisis, and in the course of investigating Watergate, Congress realized ...

The official in charge of overseeing the federal government's information classification policy is warning that the current system is beginning to break – and he wants help and money to fix it. CIA ...

A bipartisan group of senators unveiled legislation on Wednesday to reform the information classification system in order to reduce over-classification and prevent the mishandling of classified ...

Avril Haines said agencies classify so much information it's hard to process. In a scathing rebuke of the nation's current classification procedures, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines has ...

Presidents have established and developed the classification system through a series of executive orders around World War II and the early Cold War. By Charlie Savage WASHINGTON — The special counsel ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. A bipartisan group of senators unveiled legislation on Wednesday to reform the information classification system in order to reduce over ...