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		Diesel555 on May 18, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If you’re seeing this, I’m in jail [video] > At least in the US government, whomever creates the document classifies the document That’s just not true unless you mean they apply already established classifications on derivative content. https://www.archives.gov/isoo/policy-documents/cnsi-eo.html Section 1.3 for the list of people that can classify things. The rest is “derivative” of an OCA’s decisions.

withinboredom on May 18, 2024 [–]

Well, that happened in 2009, I was in back in 2007… so, if we want to get super-pedantic, only the President can classify and unclassify documents and he/she delegates the fuck out of it.

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