“The rules for declassified by a president should be made much clearer,” former Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) told the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday.
While President Biden isfound in his personal office in Washington and home in Rehoboth Beach, Del., Biden has not claimed to have declassified the papers found improperly in his possession.
Trump has previously claimed that there isn’t a process that presidents have to follow for declassifying documents.The DOJ is wrapping up its probe of Trump’s documents at Mar-a-Lago.Presidents can and have declassified information on their own, but it has been done rarely and in specific circumstances.he received a month before the 9/11 terror attacks that had warned him of Osama bin Laden’s intent to strike the United States.
Former Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen , said letting the process go largely undefined creates mistrust in government, adding that “anything that erodes public trust in our institutions or individuals in power” should be addressed. Former Rep. Jim Langevin – who served 22 years in Congress before leaving office in January – agreed, telling the committee that while some documents may be over-classified, “transparency [in declassification] is vitally important to maintaining trust and confidence.”
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