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2/2: #Classified: The grotesque overclassification since Hiroshima & What Is to be done?

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🗓️ 24 March 2023

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2/2: #Classified: The grotesque overclassification since Hiroshima & What Is to be done?
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0:00.0

This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Bapsu with Henry Sikolsky, the executive director

0:09.8

of the Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center. We've established that the U.S. government

0:15.2

from long decades of practice over class vise, what is to be done? Henry Sikolsky's website

0:22.0

at the NPEC has a summary of 12 workshops over many years with distinguished participants

0:31.6

from the government, from outside the government, from military memory as well, about recommendations.

0:38.0

The first place to go, of course, would be the House and the Senate, which I understand

0:42.8

would be the ideal solution. However, Henry, is Congress an option here or are we just

0:51.5

mentioning Congress because it has the money and we go to a board that can be put together.

0:58.0

I believe it's called the PDIB. So what is your opinion of what needs to be done next?

1:04.8

Well, the executive is actually in fairness, sees with the need to revise an executive order that

1:13.0

was probably getting under President Obama dealing with classification policy. And at the Biden

1:19.6

administration, I am confident we'll start issuing portions over all of an executive order

1:28.8

starting this year. However, it's not probably a complete thought to think that the problem set

1:36.1

that we described, even when it's laid out as to what it is and how it might be remedy, can be

1:42.9

effectively policed by the police. In other words, you're asking the executive to change its stripes

1:54.8

practices that's engaged in for decades. That may not be so easy to do very quickly. Unless

2:02.3

you have a separate branch of government encouraging them and that separate branch naturally

2:08.7

would be Congress because they pay people's salaries and if they say, excuse me, you're coming

2:16.8

up here and you want us to open our wallets, the American public's wallet, to give you money

2:23.2

because you claim you're going to innovate and collaborate with allies and private firms and

2:29.2

do miracles with their programs. And yet, you're operating in the case of the US Army, for example,

2:34.9

400 classification guidebooks. And they have, I think, the whole government now has about 2,000

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