{"id":1829111,"date":"2023-01-30T13:35:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T18:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1829111"},"modified":"2023-01-30T13:38:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T18:38:25","slug":"national-intelligence-chief-suddenly-concerned-about-overclassification-of-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/national-intelligence-chief-suddenly-concerned-about-overclassification-of-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"National Intelligence Chief Suddenly Concerned About &#8220;Overclassification&#8221; of Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnational-intelligence-chief-suddenly-concerned-about-overclassification-of-documents%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1829111&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>The Director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-national-intelligence\">National Intelligence<\/a>Avril Haines has warned that too much information could be classified as a mistake. \u201cundermine\u201d Security and national security \u201ccritical democratic objectives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haines raised her concerns at a\u00a0two-day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?525468-1\/director-national-intelligence-haines-classified-information&#038;live#\">conference<\/a> titled \u201cAmerica\u2019s Secrets: Classified Information and Our Democracy\u201d which was held at the\u00a0Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library (LBJ Library) in Austin, Texas, last week.<\/p>\n<p>Her warning comes shortly after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-classified-documents\">classified documents<\/a> were discovered at the home of President Joe Biden and\u00a0former Vice President Mike\u00a0Pence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany have noted that the amount of information, whether properly or not, has increased significantly over the last 50 years and deficiency in the current system has led to over-classification as well as under-classification but imbalances significantly more with over-classification than under-classification,\u201d\u00a0Haines said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an urgent challenge to solve,\u201d\u00a0Haines continued, noting that over-classifying information \u201cundermines critical democratic objectives such as increasing transparency to promote an informed citizenry and greater accountability,\u201d and \u201cundermines the basic trust that the public has in its government\u201d as well as\u00a0national security.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0National Intelligence director went on to cite Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine as reasoning for the concerns prompted by over-classifying documents, stating that the war \u201cdemonstrates the importance of sharing intelligence on key national security\u00a0threats with allies, partners and the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haines did, however, acknowledge that there are \u201cpragmatic challenges\u201d that the intelligence community faces trying to establish an information\u00a0classification system that is effective, noting that some things simply must be kept secret or it will hinder intelligence officials trying to do their job or help avoid certain threats.<\/p>\n<p>Information, however, should not be over-classified just because it is \u201cembarrassing or inconvenient\u201d Haines said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4988296\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/biden-wilmington-1200x800-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy wp-image-4988296 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/biden-wilmington-1200x800-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"   style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4988296 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/biden-wilmington-1200x800-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Secret Service personnel park vehicles in the driveway leading to President Joe Biden\u2019s house after classified documents were found there by Biden\u2019s lawyers, in Wilmington, Del., on Jan. 15, 2023. (Joshua Roberts\/Reuters)<\/figure>\n<h2>Senate Intelligence Committee: Biden Admin Blocking Oversight<\/h2>\n<p>Haines\u2019s appearance at the two-day conference comes after members of the\u00a0Senate Select Intelligence Committee expressed anger that the Biden administration had been blocking their oversight efforts after they asked to be granted access to the\u00a0classified documents\u00a0found in the homes of Biden, Pence, and former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the committee initially sought access to the materials\u2014or at a minimum a damage assessment detailing the information they contained\u2014following the FBI\u2019s search of Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Additional documents marked as classified have been found at\u00a0Biden\u2019s former Washington office, the Penn Biden Center,\u00a0and at his Wilmington, Delaware home, as well as at Pence\u2019s\u00a0Indiana home.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has so far not granted the committee such access, citing their inability to do so as long as the\u00a0Justice Department (DOJ) is investigating Trump and Biden\u2019s mishandlings of the documents.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0special counsel has not yet been appointed in the case of the Pence classified documents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is our responsibility to make sure that we, in the role of the intelligence oversight, know if there\u2019s been any intelligence compromised,\u201d Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.) <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/senators-access-biden-trump-classified-documents\/story?id=96703432\">told<\/a> reporters following the meeting with\u00a0Haines\u00a0on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Warner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mark-warner-marco-rubio-face-the-nation-transcript-01-29-2023\/\">told<\/a> CBS News that the committee is united in finding a way to do its job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe notion of \u2018We\u2019re not going to give the Oversight Committee the ability to do its job until the special prosecutor somehow says it\u2019s OK,\u2019 doesn\u2019t- doesn\u2019t hold water. That\u2019s not going to stand with all the members of Congress,\u201d the lawmaker said.<\/p>\n<p>Haines told attendees at last week\u2019s conference that she was \u201cgrateful\u201d for the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, which she said is \u201cquite functional,\u201d noting that the intelligence community strives to regularly communicate with the bipartisan committee and provide information to both Republicans and Democrats in a way that \u201cpromotes confidence in the system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director of National IntelligenceAvril Haines has warned that too much information could be classified as a mistake. \u201cundermine\u201d Security and national security \u201ccritical democratic objectives.\u201d Haines raised her concerns at a\u00a0two-day conference titled \u201cAmerica\u2019s Secrets: Classified Information and Our Democracy\u201d which was held at the\u00a0Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library (LBJ Library) in Austin, Texas, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1822714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5772,4511,5407,4786,4107,16362,5550],"class_list":["post-1829111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-chief","tag-concerned","tag-documents","tag-intelligence","tag-national","tag-overclassification","tag-suddenly"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1829111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1822714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1829111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1829111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1829111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}