Secret material would cause "serious damage" to national security if made publicly available.
Confidential material would cause "damage" to national security if made publicly available.
___Those with access to classified information have "security clearances" generally granted after background investigations (BI) or Expanded BIs for higher level access. This process is very expensive, so security clearances are limited by "need to know." All Senators and Representatives in Congress have security clearances. It is sometimes hard to explain their votes to audiences because parts of the subject are classified. There must be trust of our representatives in a Constitutional republic. Those representatives betray that trust if material is classified to deceive Americans. The United States is not a "democracy" as some in government would have us believe.
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