RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
September 27, 2019 at 2:48 pm
(This post was last modified: September 27, 2019 at 2:51 pm by onlinebiker.)
(September 27, 2019 at 12:39 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(September 27, 2019 at 12:31 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: Is Trump a sleazy politician? Does the pope wear holy underwear?
Like it or not Executive Order 12356 - in place since 1982 gives the President the authority to classify or declassify information AT HIS DISCRETION....
Clinton used it. Obama used it.... If it was a really bad idea - they should have countermanded the EO.....
They didn't.
No big surprise it gets abused.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with the president's ability to de/classify information.
I confess to being uninformed about the sanctity of the Pope's undergarments.
Boru
It has everything to do with it.
Read section 3.1b.
Declassification must be done by the originator of the implementation of information's classification - their successor, or supervising superior. As the President is the top supervisor he can classify or declassify anything - at whim.
Edit to add - I KNOW this shit. I held a TS clearance when this executive order went through - and had to sit through a weeks worth of classes on it.