Abel is an associate professor of law at UC Law, San Francisco. His academic research focuses on informational asymmetries in the criminal justice system and the structural injustices these ...

The U.S. government classifies tens of millions of documents a year. Experts say the practice is excessive. By German Lopez Classified documents keep turning up in the homes of former presidents and ...

Decades from now, when the government belatedly releases the Trump and Biden purloined records, Americans may well wonder what all the fuss was about. The document cases tied to the president and his ...

Already, citizens have sought information for various reasons, only to have their requests denied by the government on security grounds. In , a U.S. district court in Utah denied a request by a local ...

Washington — Revelations that documents bearing classification markings were found at President Biden's former office and his Wilmington, Delaware, house has prompted scrutiny of the president and the ...

Yesterday evening, The Washington Post broke the blockbuster news that FBI agents who searched former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence on Monday were looking for “nuclear documents,” a phrase ...

The national intelligence director did not mince words: the government has an over-classification problem. “Over-classification undermines critical democratic objectives, such as increasing ...

US classified documents have been turning up in places they shouldn’t be in recent months. The Justice Department removed some classified documents from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago ...

The FBI seized nearly a dozen sets of highly classified material from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home last week, according to the search warrant. At the request of the Department of ...