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Classified documents 25 years or older must be reviewed by any and all agencies that possess an interest in the sensitive information found in the document. Documents classified for longer than 50 years must concern human intelligence sources or weapons of mass destruction, or get special permission. [89]
Executive Order 14176, titled "Declassification of Records Concerning the Assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.", is an executive order signed by Donald Trump on January 23, 2025, to declassify records about the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.
The United States' National Security Information (NSI) has been classified under Executive Order 13526, [14] but since 10 January 2017 the rules were modified by James Clapper as Security Executive Agent Directive 4 [15] in the closing days of the Obama administration. [16]
After Donald Trump suggested last week that as president “you can declassify just by saying it's declassified, even by thinking about it,” Republican Wyoming Senator John Barrasso disagreed ...
Additionally, the State Department was accused by the Department of Energy of improperly releasing information it was not authorized to declassify. [1] In 1999, declassification efforts slowed considerably with the passage of the Kyl-Lott Amendment to the 1999 Defense Authorization Act which requires that all declassified records be reviewed ...
The new claim comes amid the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation into Trump's handling of classified materials. Trump claims presidents can declassify documents ‘even by thinking about ...
STORY: The power to declassify documents at will, just by thinking about them.That’s what former U.S. President Donald Trump, speaking on Fox News, claims all presidents of the United States can ...
According to the New York Times, as of 2023, 4684 documents are still "fully or partially withheld" from the public. [40] On January 23, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order to declassify documents concerning Kennedy's assassination, as well as those regarding the assassination of his brother Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King ...