Especially when it will be received negatively by the public. What’s the point? Why do they willingly allow themselves to be crucified in the media and potentially give intel to their enemies of what they’re up to?
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Classified document laws require a reason for the document to be classified. Usually it’s for reasons of national security. But when that doesn’t apply anymore, then the ordinary release process applies. When it’s not the cold war anymore and modern commercial satellites have greater imaging power than the classified spy satellites back then did, then the documents about those spy satellites has to be declassified.
Unfortunately for the government, “it would be embarrassing to tell the public we did that,” is not a valid reason to keep a document classified. If the government performed unethical medical experiments related to treating wartime injuries and illnesses and the results of those experiments are no longer a matter of national security because we have modern antibiotics and advanced surgical techniques, then the existence of those unethical medical trials can’t be classified any longer.
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