"The Obama [1st] Administration has reduced the number of people who can create secrets"

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1996
4,420

2009
2,557

"but the government creates nearly 10 times as many secret documents as it did in 1996"

Classified
information
restated
in new
documents

1996
5.7 million

2009
54.7 million

"and 75% more secrets were created in 2009 than in 1996"

Initial decisions
that information
should be classified

1996
105,163

2009
183, 224

"By whom"
Army, State, Justice, President and 12 other agencies

Source: Information Security Oversight Office
December 13, 2010 TIME cover:
"Do You
Want to
Know a
Secret?

Why WikiLeaks'
Julian Assange has
so many of them

And why it hasn't
hurt America"