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by sota4077 1092 days ago
It maybe was when you were there. But just look at how almost all aspects of our government work today and how dysfunctional it all is. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to see that standards have dropped or people just do not care anymore.
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Do you have any hard evidence that it's changed or that it's disfunctional relative to other large organizations?
Overclassification has been a problem for years. Every year, millions of classified documents are generated--not all of it top-secret, scif-class stuff, but still restricted. Which makes the job of keeping tabs on all of it difficult. It is arguable that too many people have classification authority, and that a lot of material is classified for categorical reasons but have no real security meaning.
Oh, definitely. For anyone who hasn't been, you should really see the meme folders wasting space on these resources.