How Classified Information Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The government loves to mark just about any information as secret, which wouldn’t be a big deal if it wasn’t so contrary to running a healthy democracy.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.5	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:41.3	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.8	I'm Josh and there's Chuck and there's Jerry over there on the download.
0:48.3	And this is Stuff You Should Know, the podcast.
0:52.3	The Top Secret Edition.
0:54.3	Yes, exactly what you should know is decided by us.
0:58.3	That's right.
1:00.1	We give clearance, clearance.
1:01.8	That's a good one.
1:03.0	I wouldn't have put that one together, but it's great.
1:05.7	Thanks.
1:06.9	So Chuck, we're talking about classified information, top secret information.
1:11.2	A lot of people call it by, especially if you're 12 years older, younger.
1:15.2	But it's actually a real thing.
1:16.3	That's like a real designation, top secret.
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