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Oh boy - I wondered what this whole Mar A Lago thing was about
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<blockquote data-quote="RDKirk" data-source="post: 76861392" data-attributes="member: 326155"><p>As I've mentioned before from my own direct experience, yes, presidents can declassify material with verbal instructions, but they must give those verbal instructions so that the materials can then be declassified according to regulations.</p><p></p><p>As someone else has already mentioned, there are multiple copies of most documents, and all of them must be physically declassified--that is, all the markings in every document and every related document must be changed paragraph by paragraph.</p><p></p><p>It doesn't happen by a president just saying, "Everything I take with me is unclassified" when he hasn't even told anyone what he took with him.</p><p></p><p>Moreover, and this is the crux in this particular issue: The president cannot declassify everything. He can only declassify what he (that is, the Executive Branch) originally classified. The president cannot declassify what the Congress has classified legislatively.</p><p></p><p>These nuclear documents were originally classified by Congressional legislation...the president has no power to declassify them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDKirk, post: 76861392, member: 326155"] As I've mentioned before from my own direct experience, yes, presidents can declassify material with verbal instructions, but they must give those verbal instructions so that the materials can then be declassified according to regulations. As someone else has already mentioned, there are multiple copies of most documents, and all of them must be physically declassified--that is, all the markings in every document and every related document must be changed paragraph by paragraph. It doesn't happen by a president just saying, "Everything I take with me is unclassified" when he hasn't even told anyone what he took with him. Moreover, and this is the crux in this particular issue: The president cannot declassify everything. He can only declassify what he (that is, the Executive Branch) originally classified. The president cannot declassify what the Congress has classified legislatively. These nuclear documents were originally classified by Congressional legislation...the president has no power to declassify them. [/QUOTE]
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