01-22-2018, 04:00 PM
(01-22-2018, 03:42 PM)michaelsean Wrote: There have to be other ways I would think. I mean it was written by the House Intelligence Committee.
They can vote on whether or not to recommend the memo be declassified, but it still falls to the executive to declassify. They are the gatekeepers of classifications. While the memo was written by staffers on the committee, the reason it is classified is because the information contained within has been classified at some point by the executive branch.