New bipartisan Senate bill seeks to reduce overclassification

A World War I-era document containing a secret ink recipe that the federal government deemed worthy of classification for nearly 100 years.

The government has too many secrets, and most of them shouldn’t be secrets in the first place.

How much information is overclassified? Our best guesses range from 75% to 90%. If the conservative estimate that the classification system costs $18 billion a year is taken at face value...