During the House Intelligence Committee hearing today on “Worldwide Threats,” Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper said that he has recently had conversations about releasing more of the documents captured in Osama bin Laden’s compound. More of the documents should be released, Clapper said.

For nearly one year we’ve been arguing that more of the files, which would fill a “small college library,” should be released to the public. To date, the Obama administration has released just 17 of the documents (and a handful of videos) from an archive that totaled “hundreds of thousands” of files. This is an insignificant fraction of the total haul.