🧵 As many as 90% of government secrets shouldn’t be secret in the first place.
A good, new bipartisan bill hopes to fix this — but it’s missing a key ingredient.
By Lauren Harper, FPF's inaugural Daniel Ellsberg chair on government secrecy
https://freedom.press/news/new-bipartisan-senate-bill-seeks-to-reduce-overclassification/
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