The nation's top intelligence official is
considering letting spy agencies drop the lowest level of
classification, "confidential," in an effort to shrink the gusher of
secret documents flowing out of their offices.
The proposal by James Clapper, the director of
national intelligence, comes amid a simmering controversy over
classified information that found its way on to the home email system
used by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton when she was
secretary of state.
But Clapper's proposal would have little bearing on the Clinton matter,
because it would only apply to the intelligence community, not the State
Department, said Steven Aftergood, an intelligence expert at the
Federation of American Scientists who first called attention to it.
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Source: NBC News
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