One of the many issues raised by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email controversy is who within the State Department determines the classification level of key and routine documents.

Jeffrey Fields is an associate professor of the practice of international relations at the University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Before coming to academia ...

Documents sought by the U.S. Justice Department from former President Donald Trump may contain material related to what The New York Times described as “some of the most highly classified programs run ...

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 ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Columbia University history professor Matthew Connelly, author of "The Declassification Engine," talked about the levels of document classification ...

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