- Sun Aug 21, 2022 6:43 am
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"A judge ruled in 2012 that a president's discretion to declare records "personal" is far-reaching and mostly unchallengeable.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson concluded that there was no provision in the Presidential Records Act to force the National Archives to seize records from a former president.
Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama signed executive orders — which remain in force to this day — presidents have sweeping authority to declassify secrets and do not have to follow the mandatory declassification procedures."
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson concluded that there was no provision in the Presidential Records Act to force the National Archives to seize records from a former president.
Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama signed executive orders — which remain in force to this day — presidents have sweeping authority to declassify secrets and do not have to follow the mandatory declassification procedures."