Timeline for answer to Does the President really have the absolute right to declassify anything he wants to? by user6726
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| Sep 17, 2022 at 15:08 | comment | added | user6726 | Yeah, leaving aside the automatic declassification requirement which takes decades to kick in, somebody in the executive branch has to do something to change a document from "classified" to "declassified". Actually, only SCOTUS can decide whether POTUS can directly declassify material, this being a presidential powers issue. So one can suspect that he can't, but this has not been put to the test. | |
| Sep 17, 2022 at 14:42 | comment | added | gnasher729 | So the President of the USA could order people to declassify documents, but couldn't do it directly himself? And if he didn't order anyone, or if those people didn't follow his orders, then the materials would remain classified? | |
| Sep 16, 2022 at 1:41 | history | answered | user6726 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |