16 Jan 2023 5:43 pm
do those documents LOOK declassified?Beekeeper » 16 Jan 2023, 6:38 pm » wrote: ↑ Argue with the ABA, DUMBARSE.....
Most national security legal experts dismissed the former president’s suggestion that he could declassify documents simply by thinking about it. But as an ABA Legal Fact Check posted Oct. 17 explains, legal guidelines support his contention that presidents have broad authority to formally declassify most documents that are not statutorily protected, while they are in office.
The system of classifying national security documents is largely a bureaucratic process used by the federal government to control how executive branch officials handle information, whose release could cause the country harm. The government has, however, prosecuted cases for both mistaken and deliberate mishandling of information. Under the U.S. Constitution, the president as commander in chief is given broad powers to classify and declassify such information, often through use of executive orders.
https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanew ... authority/