So I don't really think there's anything that's in particularly would be earth shattering inside the files themselves. The system doesn't want to get us used to things being rapidly declassified. They don't want a president to be able to come in and say, here's an executive order. And I said declassify it because the people demand it. And it happens like that as fast as it could happen. They don't want that to happen. (1:49:20–1:49:27)
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