Congress Orders Pentagon to Review ‘Controlled Unclassified’ Label

Congress has given the Defense Department until the end of January to look into whether bureaucrats are overusing a document designation known as Controlled Unclassified Information to keep the public from learning about bad news.

A little-noticed provision of the $1.7 trillion government funding bill, signed by President Joe Biden on Dec. 29, orders the Pentagon to report back in 30 days on policies concerning the CUI designation given that “there is concern that the extensive use of CUI will result in less transparency, accountability and congressional oversight.”