declassification
Lifting document secrecy
Declassification is the removal of secret or confidential status from government documents, making them available to the public.
The process typically follows set procedures and time periods: The declassification of Cold War files revealed decades of covert operations.
Declassified materials often generate news when they expose previously hidden government actions.
Federal transparency statute
- intelligenceMental ability, cognitive capacity
- classifiedRestricted from disclosure
- top-secretMaximum security clearance level
- redactionObscuring sensitive text
sanitization · censorship · oversight · congressional · agency · Pentagon · CIA · NSA
To let go
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- exposureState of being unprotected
- unveilingAct of first revealing
- leaksUnwanted fluid escapes
whistleblower · secrets · sensitive · confidential · sealed · embargo · announcement · acknowledgment
Formal written records
- filesStored data collections
- recordsStored data or albums
- repositoryPlace for storing things
- databaseOrganized digital information collection
library · historical · papers · dossiers · cables · memos · photographs · footage
Educational funding or erudition
- studyDeliberate learning effort
- historiansScholars of the past
- academicsProfessional researchers and teachers
- journalistsNews gatherers and writers
investigators · analysis · examination · access · discovery · findings · publications · documentation
FOIA
Federal transparency statute
- intelligenceMental ability, cognitive capacity
- classifiedRestricted from disclosure
- top-secretMaximum security clearance level
redaction · sanitization · censorship · oversight · congressional · agency · Pentagon · CIA · NSA · FBI
release
To let go
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- exposureState of being unprotected
- unveilingAct of first revealing
leaks · whistleblower · secrets · sensitive · confidential · sealed · embargo · announcement · acknowledgment · admission
documents
Formal written records
- filesStored data collections
- recordsStored data or albums
- repositoryPlace for storing things
database · library · historical · papers · dossiers · cables · memos · photographs · footage · transcripts
scholarship
Educational funding or erudition
- studyDeliberate learning effort
- historiansScholars of the past
- academicsProfessional researchers and teachers
journalists · investigators · analysis · examination · access · discovery · findings · publications · documentation · evidence
- executive ordersexecutive orders, executive order, presidential directives, presidential decree, presidential proclamation
- information controlaccess control, censorship, filtering, gatekeeping, moderation
- FOIAexemption, redaction, request, requester, response
- securitysecurity guard, security cameras, alarm system, security system, lock
- intelligencesmart, IQ, memory, bright, clever
- secretssecrecy, secret, trade secret, secrets, confidential
declassificationclassification
Systematic grouping by traits
reclassification · restriction · confidentiality · secrecy · security classification
declassificationclassification
Systematic grouping by traits
concealment · cover-up · obfuscation · sealing · withholding
class, classical, classify, classification, unclassified, reclassify, classifier, classifieds, declassify