That does not appear to have been the case with some of the documents that were returned to the National Archives from Mar-a-Lago this year. They’re all marked ‘declassified’ with the date they were declassified,” Immerman said. “I’ve seen thousands of declassified documents. That’s the only way the system can work,” because otherwise there would be no way of knowing who could handle or see the documents. “He can’t just wave a wand and say it’s declassified,” Immerman said. Richard Immerman, a historian and an assistant deputy director of national intelligence in the Obama administration, said that, while the president has the authority to declassify documents, there’s a formal process for doing so, and there's no indication Trump used it. Trump himself said on his Truth Social platform Friday, "It was all declassified." Who is he supposed to notify? I think it’s the height of swampism to think the president should seek bureaucrats’ approval,” Grenell told NBC News, emphasizing that he wasn’t personally speaking for the president.
There is this phony idea that he must provide notification for declassification but that’s just silly. “There is no approval process for the president of the United States to declassify intelligence.
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