RaveThe Washington PostHarrowing ... Readers will doubtless look to The Declassification Engine to make sense of the classified files that are now in the news. Yet to insist on the timeliness of Connelly’s research may be to miss its most powerful lesson. There is a much sadder story detailed in the pages of The Declassification Engine — a story about the existential threat that secrecy poses to civic knowledge ... As Connelly suggests, the situation portends something close to \'the end of history as we know it.\' Look beyond the headlines, and it’s easy to see why.