{"id":197809,"date":"2008-01-10T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T05:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/10\/finally-some-sanity-on-security-classifications\/"},"modified":"2008-01-10T00:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T05:09:00","slug":"finally-some-sanity-on-security-classifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/10\/finally-some-sanity-on-security-classifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, Some Sanity on Security Classifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Interest Declassification Board is <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/mochila.php?articleId=11456021&amp;channelId=76&amp;buyerId=talkingpointsmemo_com400732&amp;buid=866\">calling for a streamlining of the declassification process<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking as someone who has held a secret clearance<sup>*<\/sup>, the biggest problem is complacency, and this is driven by over-classification.<\/p>\n<p>When everything you touch, even things that are ordinary and are actually publicly known, is classified, are classified, nothing is classified.  It becomes background noise.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Just in case you are wondering if the fact that a complete and total pratt like me got a secret clearance means that we are all doomed, the answer is yes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Interest Declassification Board is calling for a streamlining of the declassification process. Speaking as someone who has held a secret clearance*, the biggest problem is complacency, and this is driven by over-classification. When everything you touch, even things that are ordinary and are actually publicly known, is classified, are classified, nothing is classified. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1102,985,1061],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intelligence","category-regulation","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}