The U.S. government classifies tens of millions of documents a year. Experts say the practice is excessive. By German Lopez Classified documents keep turning up in the homes of former presidents and ...

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Yesterday evening, The Washington Post broke the blockbuster news that FBI agents who searched former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence on Monday were looking for “nuclear documents,” a phrase ...

When FBI agents arrived at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort a month ago, they should not have found any documents marked classified. This isn’t simply an observation about the behavior of former ...

US classified documents have been turning up in places they shouldn’t be in recent months. The Justice Department removed some classified documents from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago ...

The U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing the discovery of classified documents found in an office no longer used by President Joe Biden at a think tank in Washington, D.C. Classified information is ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Yale Law School professor and former Pentagon special counsel Oona Hathaway discusses the classification system of government documents and how they ...

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) is requesting the Government Accountability Office review whether the Trump administration is improperly classifying documents that it provided to Congress. “There was ...

The rate of classification has increased 75% since the start of the Bush Administration and topped 16 million classification decisions in 2004, according to the head of the government’s classification ...