Billy_Bob
Diamond Member
Wrong... HIs verbal order is all that is required... Keep spinning..The president has the authority, but like all presidential powers, he has to enact them in an official manner. Such as the supreme court already ruled that pardons have to be put in writing, and do not become official until they are delivered to the person being pardoned.
The same that executive orders have to be set on paper, and signed by the president.
So the president has the power to classify or declassify anything in his relm, it doesn't officialy become so, until it is properly marked.
After all, someone taking a diet coke can from the presidents desk would be unaware if Trump classified it top secret, and throw it in the unclassified garbage.