Trump claims that as vice president, Joe Biden did not have the right to declassify documents. But under an Obama-era executive order, Biden did have declassification authority.
By Samantha Putterman • January 6, 2023
This means that because Biden had original classification authority as vice president, he also had authority to declassify information that he had classified in the first place. We don’t know who initiated the classifications on the documents found in Biden’s home and office. Experts are divided on whether the vice president is considered a supervisory official over other agencies, and has declassification authority over their classified information.
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