https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/richard-grenell-pardon-transparency-classified/2020/11/26/id/998924/

"We had several intelligence officials who raised their hand and said this is all a bunch of baloney, this overclassified information, the secret process that bureaucrats are spoonfeeding political people at the top of the DOJ, CIA, and at the FBI," he added.

It's also overblown to charge Flynn with a crime for speaking with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak because he was "doing exactly what we wanted him to do" during the transition … he was being a diplomat. The innuendo that was flying from inside the [Barack] Obama administration at the time was really shameful," Grenell said.

He also pointed out that "transparency is not political" to the American people.

"If they can get the information and look at it, they can see exactly what's going on," said Grenell. "I think that we've got a problem in Washington, and one of the solutions is to push back on the overclassification and transparency of declassified documents so that the American people can have more faith in their government."