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 ...

Abel is an associate professor of law at UC Law, San Francisco. His academic research focuses on informational asymmetries in the criminal justice system and the structural injustices these ...

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 ...

Washington — Revelations that documents bearing classification markings were found at President Biden's former office and his Wilmington, Delaware, house has prompted scrutiny of the president and the ...

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 ...

Already, citizens have sought information for various reasons, only to have their requests denied by the government on security grounds. In , a U.S. district court in Utah denied a request by a local ...

Decades from now, when the government belatedly releases the Trump and Biden purloined records, Americans may well wonder what all the fuss was about. The document cases tied to the president and his ...

WASHINGTON - A senior State Department official asked for the FBI’s help last year to change the classification level of an email from Hillary Clinton’s private server, and there was a “quid pro quo” ...

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 ...