Classified—Government’s Dirty Secret

Classifying genuine secrets can keep us safe. Overclassifying makes us less safe. ———— To get our new weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: #subscribe ———— We’ve heard about the top secret documents found at the homes of Donald Trump and Joe Biden. The media call it a national security crisis. Bunk. The truth is, the word classified usually means very little. Government classifies three things every second. “A lot of top secrets are nothing of the kind,” historian Matthew Connelly tells us. Many classified “secrets” are nonsense or embarrassing proof of government incompetence. I’ll show you why the problem is much bigger than Presidents taking classified documents home.