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Obama's Declassification EO Does Not Permit the VP to Declassify Any Document He Wants
| Published: 6/15/2023 | |||
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Executive Order 13526 was written December 29, 2009. It was added to the Federal Register on January 5, 2010. This Executive Order was originally written to describe how information is classified and declassified.
The Executive Order specifically says who has classification authority (the ability to classify documents (not declassify them)).
Sec. 1.3. Classification Authority. (a) The authority to classify information originally may be exercised only by:
(1) the President and the Vice President;
(2) agency heads and officials designated by the President; and
The Executive Order outlines 3 levels of classification.
If something is Declassified it has no classification. Declassified is not a classification level.
Sec. 1.2. Classification Levels. (a) Information may be classified at one of the following three levels:
(1) Top Secret shall be applied to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security that the original classification authority is able to identify or describe.
(2) Secret shall be applied to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause serious damage to the national security that the original classification authority is able to identify or describe.
(3) Confidential shall be applied to information, the unauthorized disclosure of which reasonably could be expected to cause damage to the national security that the original classification authority is able to identify or describe.
(b) Except as otherwise provided by statute, no other terms shall be used to identify United States classified information.
(c) If there is significant doubt about the appropriate level of classification, it shall be classified at the lower level.
The EO describes the ability to declassify information in the following way:
PART 3—DECLASSIFICATION AND DOWNGRADING
Sec. 3.1. Authority for Declassification. (a) Information shall be declassified as soon as it no longer meets the standards for classification under this order.
(b) Information shall be declassified or downgraded by:
(1) the official who authorized the original classification, if that official is still serving in the same position and has original classification authority;
(2) the originator’s current successor in function, if that individual has original classification authority;
(3) a supervisory official of either the originator or his or her successor in function, if the supervisory official has original classification authority; or
(4) officials delegated declassification authority in writing by the agency head or the senior agency official of the originating agency.
Explanation:
the official who authorized the original classification, if that official is still serving in the same position and has original classification authority;
This means that the Vice President can only declassify the information if the Vice President was the one who classified it, IF the Vice President is still serving in the same position and has the authority to classify that information at the level it’s classified at.
This also says that the successor of the VP can also declassify it, if they have the authority to classify it at that level (which they would).
According to this EO:
The Vice President DOES have the ability to classify information.
The Vice President DOES have the ability to declassify information, but only if the VP was the one who originally classified it.
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