Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To remove official security classification from (a document).
Wiktionary
- v. to remove the classification from; to lift the restrictions on
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. to lift the restriction on publication [of documents] by reducing or eliminating the secrecy classification of.
WordNet 3.0
- v. lift the restriction on and make available again
Examples
“He avoids dealing with why the president decided to "declassify" that NIE without informing the CIA.”
“Did the President only "declassify" the key judgments section, or did he also "declassify" the portion of the text that Libby misrepresented to Miller?”
“The term "declassify" as used herein means to remove the security classification.”
“A more sensible approach would be to declassify relevant documents pertaining to just one or two regions, and for my money the Middle East makes the most sense.”
The Huffington Post: Nikolas Kozloff: Wikileaks Needs to Fine Tune Its Media Strategy
“In an interview with Fox News last week, former Vice President Dick Cheney announced that he had “formally asked the CIA to take steps to declassify those memos,” which reportedly demonstrate the “success” that enhanced interrogations had in compelling high-value Al Qaeda operatives to provide intelligence that helped to protect the United States from terrorist attacks.”
“Attorney General Eric Holder has agreed after a long internal battle (against John Brennan) to declassify and release memos from the Bush Justice Department detailing specific techniques allowed for use against “high-value” detainees at Guantanamo Bay.”
“How about we get the REAL truth behind this administration and declassify everything Bush/Cheney used "executive privilege" to protect?”
“There is strong support to declassify the MEK -- and equally strong opposition to block the move.”
“He had his aides declassify more than a hundred secret operations and released accounts of them to reporters—in many cases including their code names and the names of the agents who had performed heroically.”
“Mr. Cheney went on the Fox News Channel to announce that he had asked the C.I.A. to declassify reports documenting the intelligence gained from the interrogations.”
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