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  It's true. Overclassification of documents in the government is a huge problem. And it really does just come down to laziness and complacency a lot of the time. 
  Source: worked in the IC alongside intel analysts of all flavors.
context: Why didn’t the Archives catch this themselves? That’s their effing job! >
  
  Exactly! How come they don’t put barcodes on all these documents? A local library has better tracking on what hasn’t been returned. >
  
  Just so fucking funny people still think there’s a massive government wide conspiracy when they can’t even properly keep track of their own tOp sEcReT doCuMents. Buncha ass clowns honestly. >
  
  Tbh the vast majority of these docs shouldn't be classified at all. When millions of docs are classified, it's an obvious case of abuse of classification, and the sole goal behind this is to keep information that should be public out of the public view. Probably less than 5% of these docs have legitimacy to be classified.
  The fact that they are handled so lightly shows two things: 1) politicians don't care about security and think themselves above the laws, and 2) the information in most of these documents isn't that critical that it should be classified. So why are these docs classified ? 
  Probably because they don't want to go through the trouble of actually reading them to check if some piece of information needs to stay secret, so they classify everything by default, which flies in the face of freedom of information.