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Things are usually overclassified; I put in a 47 and it comes back as a 20 asking for clarification on the depth of cuts etc.
Pants On Fire « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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The Bush administration overclassified legal decision-making in order to shield itself from scrutiny.
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These groups 'interests are seldom aligned, yet it was one of the most lively sessions of the whole weekend: the intelligence geeks were giving the transparency wonks ideas for platforms that can effectively manage the tangle of overclassified (and illegally classified) data that has arisen in recent years.
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Almost everything kept from the public is overclassified (or at least misclassified).
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One of the complaints from journalists has been that FOIA complaints were taking months, even years, to be responded to, and that information was being overclassified as off limits.
B&C - Breaking News 2009
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The case amounted to the criminalization of extremely routine practices in Washington: acquiring and distributing information that’s overclassified.
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According to the government’s own General Accounting Office, as many as 40 percent of civil-service jobs are “overclassified”—that is, they could be performed just as well for less money.
Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981
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According to the government’s own General Accounting Office, as many as 40 percent of civil-service jobs are “overclassified”—that is, they could be performed just as well for less money.
Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981
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According to the government’s own General Accounting Office, as many as 40 percent of civil-service jobs are “overclassified”—that is, they could be performed just as well for less money.
Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981
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According to the government’s own General Accounting Office, as many as 40 percent of civil-service jobs are “overclassified”—that is, they could be performed just as well for less money.
Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981
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