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Must the president follow any specific procedures when declassifying government information? The answer is a resounding no.

Congress has oversighteasyersigy . wants congress has classification authority to see anything at once. so why is there this this pretense of, oh, we haver sour to protect our sources and methods? you don't proteccemethod t classifieds anyone information from congress. and this isn't even classified. is is unclassified based on the reporting that we've seen, which means whatmeans exy do they think thatf cong they're keeping away here from members of congress? rent to seso who want to see it? so, yes, joe , to your point, it could very well be that they have additional pieces ofaf the puzzle an...

Taken into the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them. the idea that some paper pushing bureaucrat with classification authority delegated by the president needs to approve a declassification is absurd. so that was trump's defense. he had a standing order to declassify all these documents, whatever a standing declassification order is. cool. except nobody bought it. cnn interviewed 18 former officials from trump's own administration who called this explanation ludicrous and ridiculous and complete fission. john kelly trump's chief of staff he said nothing approachi...

Joining us this evening. remember back in august last year, when the fbi searched trump's mar-a-lago home looking for classified documents, documents they believed the former president has knowingly stashed away? trump complained very loudly and publicly about that. he also fund-raise off it and took every opportunity to put out what a victim he was of a deep state witch hunt. but his first real defense, first real justification for why he kept all of the documents in the first place, that came in the form of a statement released exclusively to fox news, quote, president trump had a standing o...

A federal magistrate judge in Worcester, Massachusetts, heard arguments last week on whether the young airman accused of leaking scores of classified documents should be freed on bond or detained pending trial. Judge David H. Hennessy, after listening to government and defense lawyers for 90 minutes, took the matter under advisement Thursday and said he would rule shortly in the case of Airman 1st Class Jack Teixeira, 21, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard.