Declassified Quotes

We have every hope that it will be declassified, every intention to declassify at this time. - Sean McCormack

This newly declassified information provides additional, dramatic evidence that the administrations prewar statements were deceptive... More than a year before Secretary Powell included that charge in his presentation to the United Nations, the DIA had said it believed the detainee's claims were bogus. - Carl Levin

There will be a discussion about classified information and the proper handling of classified national security information, how that material is classified, by whom, for how long, who has access to it, how the material is declassified, the badges that people wear to show their security clearances, and so forth... The briefings discuss the security precautions that are in place for handling classified information such as the use of safes or the use of specific locations to view classified information like the Situation Room here at the White House. - Scott McClellan

That is something the Congressman has been working on behind the scenes for some time now. What that means is that we can expand our army of talent reviewing this material, with the hope that some of this stuff will eventually be declassified. - Todd Mitchell

Some categories of classified information are protected by statute and not only by executive order. Intelligence sources and methods are protected by the National Security Act and cannot be declassified even by the say-so of the president. - Steven Aftergood

It wasn't totally destroyed at the time of the Gulf War ... and no doubt more of that evidence will be declassified and put before the broader community. - Robert Hill

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works. - Noam Chomsky

I think the declassified answer, is yes, they can do that. - George Tenet

95 percent of that information could be declassified. - Richard Shelby