Pentagon’s Classification Habit Is Faulted by Key Lawmaker
- ‘Some things that are classified shouldn’t be:’ Ken Calvert
- House panel’s chairman sees the need for a system overhaul
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The new chairman of the House subcommittee that bankrolls defense and intelligence spending is the latest lawmaker to accuse the Pentagon of classifying too much information.
“I’ve been doing this intelligence stuff for a long time, probably more than anybody, and I’d say 70% of what I see, I don’t understand why it’s classified,” Representative Ken Calvert, a California Republican, said in an interview.