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The Classification Process Declassified

The Just Security Podcast

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The President's Leeway to Manoeuvre and Unilateral Authority

The president and the White House indicate that they want to declassify a piece of information or a category of information. Sometimes that may be for a speech that the president wants to give about an appointment topic. Other times it might be the president has a trip coming up where they want to meet with a foreign leader, so oftentimes that'll be the case. Usually what happens is a general direction is then provided to the agencies in the National Security Arena to work on this with the White House staff.

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