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The president holds very broad constitutional and statutory authority to declassify national security information, but that authority is constrained in practice by executive orders, agency equities, a...
officials have disclosed classified systems used in through a mix of internal controls, tightly limited briefings, formal declassification processes, and episodic releases or leaks to the public; thos...
Declassified releases since 2017 and a large Trump-era dump in 2025 opened tens of thousands of JFK-related pages but have not resolved core questions about Jack Ruby’s wider connections; scholars quo...
Recent official activity shows , while significant collections remain partially or wholly withheld. Declassification projects and FOIA litigation produced releases in 2023–2024, but agencies such as t...
Barack Obama launched an explicit “Open Government” agenda on his first full day in office, issuing a Presidential Memorandum and an Open Government Directive that pushed agencies to disclose data, ad...
Stakeholder positions on recent Department of Energy (DOE) declassification activity are mixed: historians, archivists and research institutions have repeatedly urged DOE to set priorities and collabo...
Past and recent federal reclassifications of degree and program status have immediate financial effects on student borrowing and on program demand; the Department of Education’s 2025 moves to narrow w...
Declassification activity has accelerated: the National Declassification Center listed 52 projects totaling 664,527 pages completed between April and June 2025 . Major repositories — the National Arch...