SCHOOL THESIS

illion on classification management. 103 In contrast, in 1998, $199.65 million was
allocated for declassification and $212.96 million for classification management. 104
Given the current budget crisis America faces, one could question the efficacy of
spending so much money on management of larger and larger quantities of classified
documents.
World affairs have helped dictate U.S. administrative policy on protecting
classified information. While policy pertaining to classification of sensitive information
has been in effect since the 1940s, how well is the U.S. national security information
actually being protected? Nowhere in any of the executive orders are there provisions for
granting security clearances, who could or could not work with classified documents, or
policies anything pertaining to punishment in the case where a classified document was
compromised. Can policy be effective to prevent leaks, intentional or unintentional?
Examples presented in this thesis show not only policy on information protection may
need to be revised, but also security clearance vetting and issuance procedures and
implementing a more thorough training program require greater emphasis.
103 Information Security Oversight Office, 2012 Annual Report to the President (Washington, DC:
Information Security Oversight Office, 2013), http://www.archives.gov/isoo/reports/2012-annualreport.pdf,
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104 Ibid.
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