According to Bernd Debusmann 2011,Old habits die hard. By the time you read to the bottom of this column, around 1,600 U.S. government documents and communications will have been classified in the name of national security. If past habits serve as a guide, many if not most of the “confidential,” “secret” and “top secret” markings will fall under the label “overclassification,” a practice that stretches back to the 1940s and has been criticized in a long string of reports by high-powered congressional commissions and academic experts.”
Read more > http://blogs.reuters.com/bernddebusmann/2011/10/14/obama-and-americas-culture-of-secrecy/