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SECURITY classification (Government documents) , *PUBLIC officers , *NATIONAL security - Abstract
The article discusses how U.S. government classified information are used by federal officials to cover up mistakes or to exaggerate their own importance. Topics discussed include insights from Columbia University history professor Matthew Connelly on how classified information evolved as a way to safeguard national security to a means of protecting or destroying public officials. Also mentioned is how classified information were used to topple then president Richard Nixon from office in 1974.
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- 2017