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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]
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...
From “you can declassify just by saying it’s declassified” to “it was bravado” and “I didn’t have any documents,” how the former president’s defense has shifted over time.
Executive Order 13526 directs originating agencies to declassify documents if possible before shipment to NARA for long-term storage, [40] but NARA also stores some classified documents until they can be declassified. Its Information Security Oversight Office monitors and sets policy for the U.S. government's security classification system.