This proposal can also be found on the Public Interest Board’s Transforming Classification blog. We welcome your comments –and comments on any of the fourteen other Transforming Classification white papers– at the PIDB’s site. We’ll be briefly commenting on our proposal at the 26 May PIDB meeting held at the National Archives.
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“Three Ideas for Transformation: Classification Tax, Equity Reform, and Sunshine Dates”
by Bill Burr and Nate Jones
The Public Interest Declassification Board has offered some excellent proposals to improve the broken security classification system. To reverse the disturbing trends of massive overclassification and decreasing openness, to put declassification activities on a firmer budgetary foundation, and to focus resources toward protecting true national security secrets, the National Security Archive proposes levying a classification tax, eliminating redundancies in the equity system, and adhering to “sunshine dates” when classifying and declassifying information. (more…)
