7. Intelligence Community · Notable
Tighten definitions of information categories requiring classification
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Printed page 223 7. Intelligence Community
“Tighter definitions and greater specificity for categories of information requiring protection.”
What has happened
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Nothing tightened the categories of information requiring classification. Executive Order 13526, which sets those categories at section 1.4, is unamended, and no successor order was issued. Federal Register full-text searches since 2025-01-20 for "Executive Order 13526" (four documents, all agency notices citing it as it stands) and "Classified National Security Information" (sixteen documents, none a classification-policy change) found no instrument.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- One negative search covered the classification and declassification asks on pp. 223-224: #590, #591, #592, #593, #594 and #596.
- Executive Order 13526, the order that defines classification categories, original classification authorities and classification guides, was neither amended nor revoked in the window: a Federal Register full-text search for “Executive Order 13526” since 2025-01-20 returns four documents, all agency information-collection or Privacy Act notices citing the order as it stands.
- Action
- restrict
- Object
- Categories of information requiring classification protection
- ID
- 590