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As of 2017, certain government officials (but not their staff) are granted access to classified information needed to do their jobs without a background check: members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives for committee work, federal judges and state supreme court judges for adjudicating cases, and state governors.
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 ...
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]
WSJ explains the government’s classification and declassification procedure and what authority the President has — and doesn’t have. Illustration: Adele Morgan Can Trump Declassify Documents?
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 ...
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.
“If a president could declassify with a thought, he could literally declassify every document in the possession of the U.S. government with a constitutional Jedi-like power,” Jonathan Turley ...