It has not been the case that a president could declassify documents with just verbal instructions. His instruction to declassify a given document would first be memorialized in a written memo, usually drafted by White House counsel, which he would then sign. Typically, the leadership of the age...
Trump has been all over the place while discussing classified documents—sometimes denying he had any, and other times claiming he was legally allowed to possess some. He bizarrely claimed last year—wholly incorrectly—that the president can declassify material “even by thinking about it,”...
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stated that Bolton does not believe that any information in the chapter of his manuscript “dealing with his involvement in matters relating to Ukraine” “could reasonably be considered classified,” and asked the White House for “the results of your review of that chapter as soon as pos...
branches of the Government.” Clapper also asserted disclosure of the telephone data collection program could cause “irreversible harm” to U.S. anti-terror efforts, but at the same time indicated he’s now seeking to declassify some information about the ...