Comments by "Voix de la raison" (@voixdelaraison593) on "Judge Jeanine GOES OFF on ‘selective prosecution’ of Donald Trump" video.
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@patriotpatrol3709 All National Security Experts categorically dismiss Trump’s suggestion that he could declassify documents simply by thinking about it. But as an ABA Legal Fact Check posted Oct. 17 explains, legal guidelines support that presidents have broad authority to formally declassify most documents that are NOT STATUTORILY PROTECTED, WHILE THEY ARE IN OFFICE.
The system of classifying national security documents is largely a bureaucratic process used by the federal government to control how executive branch officials handle information, whose release could cause the country harm. The government has, however, prosecuted cases for both mistaken and deliberate mishandling of information. Under the U.S. Constitution, the president as commander in chief is given broad powers to classify and declassify such information, often through use of EXECUTIVE ORDERS.
Some secrets, such as information related to nuclear weapons, are handled separately under a specific statutory scheme that Congress has adopted under the Atomic Energy Act. Those secrets CANNOT BE AUTOMATICALLY DECLASSIFIED BY THE PRESIDENT ALONE AND REQUIRE, BY LAW, EXTENSIVE consultation with other executive branch agencies.
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