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Who Gets to Classify (and Declassify) Government Secrets?
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Who Gets to Classify (and Declassify) Government Secrets?

A Dispatch explainer.
Who Gets to Classify (and Declassify) Government Secrets?

The fact that former President Donald Trump kept over 300 classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort home in Florida—as well as his aides’ public insistence that he had a “standing order” to declassify any documents he took with him to his residence—have rekindled interest in America’s opaque classification system and the president’s role within it.

Price St. Clair is a former reporter for The Dispatch.

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