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To: Scott from the Left Coast

“The President, after all, is the ‘Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States’” according to Article II of the Constitution, the court’s majority wrote. “His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security ... flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant.”

Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy, said that such authority gives the president the authority to “classify and declassify at will.”

Even politifact had so admit it was possible...

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/may/16/james-risch/does-president-have-ability-declassify-anything-an/


1,006 posted on 06/13/2018 11:07:33 PM PDT by bitt (t\\)
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To: bitt
WATCH THE WATER!

@GenFlynn


1,012 posted on 06/13/2018 11:13:08 PM PDT by Steven W.
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