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Nobody said he could not declassify documents. He just can't wave at a pile of boxes of documents containing g top secret information and declassify their contents by royal, verbal decree. Get it through your skull, dumbass.No stupid fuck, it sure isn't.
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The majority ruling in the 1988 Supreme Court case Department of Navy vs. Egan -- which addressed the legal recourse of a Navy employee who had been denied a security clearance -- addresses this line of authority.
"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."}
Does the president have 'the ability to declassify anything at any time'?
www.globalsecurity.org