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Executive Order 13526 was issued on December 29, 2009, by United States President Barack Obama. [1] It is one of a series of executive orders from US Presidents outlining how classified information should be handled. It revokes and replaces the previous Executive Orders in effect for this, which were EO 12958 and EO 13292.
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.
The Bush executive order also included the documents of former Vice Presidents. [10] Executive Order 13489 – issued by President Barack Obama on January 21, 2009, restored the implementation of the PRA of 1978 as practiced under President Reagan's Executive Order 12667 and revoked President Bush's Executive Order 13233. [11] [12]
The Fbi has uncovered thousands of records connected to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy as a result of President Donald Trump’s executive order to release the files.. Axios ...
"Claiming that a president can declassify documents even by thinking about it is absurd," Barbara McQuade, a University of Michigan Law School professor and former U.S. attorney, wrote in an email.
Trump asserted there is no need for him to formally declassify documents. “If you’re the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying, ‘It’s declassified,’ even by ...
This analysis is contradicted by the supplemental Order of October 13, 1995 issued pursuant to Sec. 1.4 (a)(2) of President Clinton's Executive Order 12958 of April 17, 1995 declaring the Vice President as a designated official with the same ability to originate classified information at the highest level, "Top Secret", and by design - the ...
At the heart of the FBI’s investigation into former President Donald Trump is the handling of classified documents. WSJ explains the government’s classification and declassification procedure ...