“It seems to me like we’re trying to protect so much that the job becomes impossible, and then inevitably, things that really, really matter slip through the cracks,” US representative Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, told reporters upon leaving a classified briefing on the leak late last month. “That’s the lesson for me, is if you try to do absolutely everything, then you can’t do the things that you really want to do.” Over-classification is one bookend, as Senate Intelligence chair Mark Warner puts it, which was on display as classified documents were found in the possession of President Joe Biden, former president Donald Trump, and former vice president Mike Pence.

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