国家情报局局长艾薇儿·海恩斯严厉指责了国家目前的分类程序，她告诉立法者，目前的系统将如此多的信息分类，以至于危及国家安全，因为处理这些信息需要很长时间。

“我认为，当前分类系统的缺陷损害了我们的国家安全，以及关键的民主目标，阻碍了我们及时分享信息的能力，无论是与我们的情报合作伙伴、我们的监督机构分享，还是在适当的时候与普通公众分享，”她在1月5日的一封信中写道，该信已被发送给D-Ore的Sens .罗恩·怀登。，和杰里·摩兰，菅直人。

她写道，分类系统降低了情报部门“有效支持高级决策者决策”的能力，并进一步侵蚀了我们公民对政府的基本信任。

格雷姆·詹宁斯/路透泳池，文件

国家情报局局长艾薇儿·海恩斯在参议院关于世界的听证会上发言

她说，如何保护国家安全信息，但适当地分享这些信息并不是一个新的挑战，也不容易。

参议员们在10月份给海恩斯写了一封信，表达了对当前分类系统的担忧，指出对该流程的大量审查“记录了当前系统整个生命周期的担忧。”

海恩斯说:“与此同时，在数字优先的环境下，产生的机密材料数量继续呈指数级增长，随之而来的是强制性解密要求的负担不断扩大。

海恩斯说，目前已经有一些努力在进行中，但这些努力在美国广播公司新闻获得的信中没有披露。

她说，分类问题对拜登总统来说也“非常重要”。

这封信是第一封据报告的《华尔街日报》报道。

Top intel official warns 'deficiencies' in classification system pose national security threat

In a scathing rebuke of the nation's current classification procedures, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines has told lawmakers that the current system classifies so much information it puts national security at risk -- because of how long it can take to process.

"It is my view that deficiencies in the current classification system undermine our national security, as well as critical democratic objectives, by impeding our ability to share information in a timely manner, be that sharing with our intelligence partners, our oversight bodies, or, when appropriate, with the general public," she writes in a letter dated Jan. 5 and sent to Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Jerry Moran, R-Kan.

The classification system, she wrote, reduces the intelligence communities capacity to "effectively support senior policy maker decision making, and further erodes the basic trust our citizens have in their government."

The challenge on how to protect national security information, but appropriately share it is not a new challenge, nor is it easy, she said.

The senators wrote the Haines in October to express concern about the current classification system, noting numerous reviews of the process have "documented concerns across the entire lifecycle of the current system."

"In the meantime, the volume of classified material produced continues to grow exponentially in a digital first environment, bringing with it the expanding burden of mandatory declassification requirements," Haines said.

Haines said there are already efforts currently underway, but those were not disclosed in the letter obtained by ABC News.

She says the issue of classification is also "great importance" to President Biden.

The letter was firstreportedby the Wall Street Journal.