declassifications
Making secrets public
Declassifications are instances of making previously secret information publicly available.
Governments declassify documents after security concerns have passed or when public interest demands transparency.
The term appears most often in discussions of intelligence agencies and national security: The CIA announced new declassifications of Cold War files.
Each declassification removes classified status from specific records.
Federal transparency statute
- redactionsEdited-out sensitive content
- national securitySafeguarding a country's interests
- top secretHighest classification level
- confidentialMeant to stay secret
clearance · intelligence · CIA · NSA · archives · transparency · public records · state secrets
Stored data or albums
- documentsFormal written records
- filesStored data collections
- manuscriptsHandwritten or typed originals
- historicalOf documented times
preservation · access · researchers · cataloging · repository · holdings · retrieval · digitization
Finest taxonomic rank
- nomenclatureSystem of specialized terms
- taxonomyScience of categorical arrangement
- downgradingReducing rank or status
- categorizationArranging into groups
systematic · botanical · zoological · genus · hierarchy · revision · reassignment · biological
FOIA
Federal transparency statute
- redactionsEdited-out sensitive content
- national securitySafeguarding a country's interests
- top secretHighest classification level
confidential · clearance · intelligence · CIA · NSA · archives · transparency · public records · state secrets · memoranda
records
Stored data or albums
- documentsFormal written records
- filesStored data collections
- manuscriptsHandwritten or typed originals
historical · preservation · access · researchers · cataloging · repository · holdings · retrieval · digitization · provenance
species
Finest taxonomic rank
- nomenclatureSystem of specialized terms
- taxonomyScience of categorical arrangement
- downgradingReducing rank or status
categorization · systematic · botanical · zoological · genus · hierarchy · revision · reassignment · biological · scientific
declassificationsconcealments
Acts of hiding something
suppressions · cover-ups · withholdings · redactions · secrecy