By way of Lee White at the National Coalition for History:
POLITICO- White House declassification review delayed
The White House has pushed off plans to overhaul the presidential order for designating national security secrets after concluding that ongoing criminal inquiries into potential mishandling of classified documents by President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence would pose an insurmountable distraction to the effort | AP
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A review with an eye toward reforming the government’s classification system is supposed to wrap up on June 2 — but it’s looking like a key part of that plan won’t roll out anytime soon.
The White House has pushed off plans to overhaul the presidential order for designating national security secrets after concluding that ongoing criminal inquiries into potential mishandling of classified documents by President JOE BIDEN, former President DONALD TRUMP and former Vice President MIKE PENCE would pose an insurmountable distraction to the effort, a current and former official told NatSec Daily. A move would also be awkwardly timed so soon after a major leak of classified information due to the alleged actions of Massachusetts Air National Guardsman JACK TEIXEIRA.
POLITICO broke the news last year that the Biden administration had embarked on a year-long interagency review of the executive order on classification, signed by then-President BARACK OBAMA in 2009 and not revised since. The policy process was supposed to conclude next month, but there’s no indication yet of a draft EO, according to current and former officials involved.
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