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Senators Ask for Review of Classified Information, Say Documents Were Overclassified

Press release: Wyden, Bond, Senators Ask for Review of Classified Information in Senate Intelligence Report, Say Documents Were Overclassified – Request Marks First Time New Board Asked to Review Classification, September 19, 2006: “A bipartisan group of Senators who serve on the Senate Intelligence Committee…asked an independent board that oversees classification of information to review the documents to determine if in fact too much was kept secret in the recently released Senate Intelligence reports. in a letter to the head of the Public Interest Declassification Board, the Senators wrote, “The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on which we serve, recently released two reports addressing prewar intelligence issues regarding Iraq. We believe that portions of these two reports remain unnecessarily classified. We ask that the Board Review these two documents and evaluate whether any of the currently classified portions could be made public without negatively impacting national security.”

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