Ezra Cohen, who is a member of the Public Interest Declassification Board [PIDB] which advises the president and Congress on the classification system and safeguarding classified records, explains the records system and why it “has not come anywhere near to keeping pace."
PIDB member Ezra Cohen says more trained experts should be involved with handling records at the end of a presidential administration but that Congress has decreased funding at the National Archives and specifically for those who are responsible for handling classified records.
.@CBS_Herridge: Does the U.S. government have an overclassification problem?
“The board's research and investigations over the past decade has shown that there is an increased frequency of overclassification," says PIDB member Ezra Cohen.
@CBS_Herridge Ezra Cohen, Public Interest Declassification Board Member and former Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, explains to @CBS_Herridge what can make a document marked as “classified.”
@CBS_Herridge “It's long overdue for Congress to take action and really fund this problem,” PIDB member Ezra Cohen tells @CBS_Herridge on how to possibly fix the U.S. government's classified records system.
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