WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — US government agencies reviewed more than 64 million pages of classified official documents in 2014 and declassified less than half of them, the Information Security and Oversight Office (ISOO) said in an annual report.
“[In 2014] agencies reviewed 64,627,008 pages and declassified 27,819,266 pages of historically valuable records,” ISOO said in a statement on Wednesday.
US President Barack Obama ordered the report in Executive Order 13526 on December 29, 2009. It was mandated by Classified National Security Information.
In 2014, US agencies reviewed 597,498 pages of official documents, fully declassified 372,134 pages and retained classification of 34,710 pages.
The Information Security Oversight Office is responsible to the President of the United States for overseeing the US Government’s security classification program, and receives policy and program guidance from the National Security Council.
