Mark Warner urges US to loosen up on classification after leak of confidential documents.

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) is taking action after classified military documents were leaked online. Warner has proposed some reform proposals to tighten access to sensitive information and reduce over-classification of documents. He believes that the intelligence community should classify less material and there should be a single entity overseeing the nation’s deepest secrets.

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“We way over-classify documents,” Warner told ABC’s This Week. “Once we get to that highest level of classification, we maybe have too many folks taking a look at them. Over 4 million people with clearances. So, let’s classify less.”

Recently, Massachusetts Air National Guardsman 1st airman Jack Douglas Teixeira, 21, was arrested for allegedly leaking classified material, including information about the war in Ukraine. That information was disseminated in online chatrooms before officials discovered it, according to the Pentagon.

Warner’s counterpart, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH), has raised questions about how Teixeira, a cyber transport systems journeyman, even had access to that material in the first place. “This individual which literally was just an IT tech, there’s no reason that person should be able to see the full document,” he said.

Warner believes that internal controls should be put in place to prevent leaks and ensure that information sharing flourishes across agencies. He has been a big advocate of security clearance reform and continuous vetting.

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Warner added that the recent leak “is a problem that we shouldn’t be totally surprised at.” Senators were recently briefed on the leak and voiced shock over the rules guarding the nation’s most sensitive secrets.