How US presidents can declassify documents | verifythis.com
you guys still want to argue your opinions against the facts?
The source that Verifythis is quoting:
“Richard Immerman, a historian and professor at Temple University, told VERIFY.”
I’m confident there is an article out there where someone “told” the author that it is proved that Bigfoot exists.
I’d prefer to see the Federal Regulation or a specific court ruling over what someone “told” someone.
Information from the game of telephone is not very convincing to me.
For exmaple, a Federal Appeals Court decision: "
A federal appeals court in a 2020 Freedom of Information Act case, New York Times v. CIA, underscored that point: “Declassification cannot occur unless designated officials follow specified procedures,” the court said."
This is not "so-and-so said" but the COURT DECISION said.
They are describing the documents as classified, which means they have not accepted that he declassified them with his thoughts.
Further, the court is obviously not accepting the simple claim that the documents were declassified "by thought", or the discussion would have been long ended:
"In its decision, the three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote that Trump “has not even attempted to show that he has a need to know the information contained in the classified documents. … Nor has he established that the current administration has waived that requirement for these documents.”
We are arguing with facts, YOU are the one arguing with opinions (yours and others).
I will gladly accept any facts you can provide that show documents can be declassified simply by thinking about it. A court decision, a Federal Regulation, a statute, Executive Order, anything verifiable as a legal standing.
I think that's a pretty reasonable request when debating topics like this.
