23 Sep 2022 12:47 pm
But there's a process for showing you did it. A letter to the Defense Department letting it know you've declassified its most sensitive top secrets and are now free to include them in your Christmas cards would suffice, wouldn't it. Absent notice of some kind the fair presumption is the documents remain classified. I suspect the courts will find Trump's idea is meant for la la land.Neo » 23 Sep 2022, 9:59 am » wrote: ↑ As president? He can and did. There is no formal process required for declassification by a President. Want to change that? Change the constitutional powers of the unitary executive. Three co equal branches of government. President is a source of classification as much as the legislative branch. Judicial doesn't have much involvement but the president has the same power as the entirety of Congress.