The risk of strategic declassification is overuse and losing sources, particularly human intelligence, which requires careful judgment and presidential instinct about appropriate scope of disclosure.

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Bill Burns

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the easiest way to lose good sources of intelligence, whether it's human or technical, is to overdo it...we had to be careful about that

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William J. Burns: America in a World of Upheaval | Foreign Affairs InterviewForeign Affairs
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:46:13 PM

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