Top secret: Keeping documents classified

Published: 02 October 2022
on channel: CBS Sunday Morning
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Government documents that are classified as confidential, secret or top secret constitute information that would cause damage to the country's security if it were revealed. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin looks at the inner workings of America's classification apparatus – which covers millions of documents a year – and the difficulties of making classified information public.

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