2. The other thing Dean said was that he wasn't aware that ANYONE had
unilateral authority to declassify information. That was in reference to Cheney telling Brit Hume that there's an executive order giving him full authorization to declassify.
I read the Ex. order and it does say the Pres and VP have auth. to classify (along with many others), but I didn't see anywhere that said ANYONE could declassify anything. It did mention that the original classifier could declassify what he originated.
This could prove contentious during the Libby trial since Libby said he got the classified info from his superiors.
4. THIS is another one of those things the shooting kerfuffle
is relegating to the back pages...
If you can only undo that which you did in the first place...Why does Cheney think he can willy nilly declassify when he finds it politically useful!?!
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