Posted: 5/16/2017 8:05:00 AM EDT
| Am I correct in thinking that the president has the ultimate authority as the chief executive to determine whatever is and isn't classified or is there a certain established policy enacted by law which the president must abide by? |
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President has full authority to declassify anything he wants whenever he wants. The sticking point on this issue is that intelligence supposedly came from a foreign intelligence service, so he might of been revealing an ally's intelligence. |
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President has full authority to declassify anything he wants whenever he wants. The sticking point on this issue is that intelligence supposedly came from a foreign intelligence service, so he might of been revealing an ally's intelligence. |
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Furthermore, the president could decide to share classified information with another government without declassifying it. There is no legal question about this whatsoever. When it comes to classified info, the President can do whatever he wants, and is bound by no process. The authority to grant him complete and total control over the classified world is granted to him by the people when he is elected and sworn in. No other body or set of rules binds him. |
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Intelligence exists to serve the command, not vice versa.
Exercising judgment on the sharing of information is a presidential prerogative. The foreign disclosure bureaucracy and processes related to it are for the bureaucracy. Sharing information that in any way reveals sources or methods that compromise those sources or methods is the only issue, regardless of what those we'd to the bureaucracy might claim. Revealing Valerie Plame, despite the claim of Right Wing talking heads, was disgraceful and inappropriate. Nothing Trump has been accused of here by Left Wing talking heads appears to be. Non-issue. |