'Shattered': Inside the secret battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age

[Ryan Carboni]

To be more serious, that article just rehashes what was said before.
People keep saying it, and somehow... nothing happens.

Isn't espionage supposed to be some kind of shell game, not a numbers racket?

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/the-top-secret-nunes-memo-illustrates-abuse-of-our-intelligence-classification-system.html

Robin Raphel—a former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan—had her career
destroyed because the FBI suspected she was spilling secrets to the
Pakistanis. One of the claims made against her was that she was
speaking with Pakistani officials about speculation that there may be
a coup, information that the intelligence community deemed classified.
But speculation of a coup was prevalent in the Pakistani media and
within cross-government channels; all Raphel was doing was discussing
the issues of the day with her foreign counterparts.

Classification can also be abused to avoid oversight and wield power
over Congress. If you are a senator, unless you work on the
Intelligence Committee, are part of the leadership, or are the chair
or ranking member of the Foreign Relations or Armed Services
committees, your staff does not have the highest level of clearance.
Many executive branch briefings to members of Congress are at this
highest classification level, partially to protect information but
also to keep staff out. So, even if a member gains access to key
information that should be further investigated, she cannot share it
with anyone who works for her, making it nearly impossible to follow
up and exercise proper oversight.

This paucity of clearances stands in sharp contrast to the executive
branch, where thousands of people hold the highest level of clearance
and have easy access to facilities and computers that enable their
review of classified materials, and where millions of dollars are
invested annually in protecting and expanding these resources. On
Capitol Hill, there are few such facilities where classified
information can be discussed or worked on.

And yet, for all these security measures, major breaches via Edward
Snowden, Russian spying, or a Chinese heist of thousands of personnel
records continue.