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OED
trans. Chiefly U.S. To designate (a document, information, etc.) as officially secret.
Congress has given our military authorities wide discretion to make secret, or to ‘classify’, whatever seems necessary in the interests of national security.
It was more effective to classify specific critical information than to attempt broad restrictions on exterior views, photographs, and the like.
Previous presidents, including Richard Nixon, had sought to limit the number of individuals able to classify documents.
In Britain the Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure, an arm of MI5, classifies the information because of a possible risk of terrorist attack. |
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