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POTUS doesn’t have ALL levels of clearance.

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But POTUS can declassify anything where in some cases only the originator can declassify. As with issue there maybe certain exceptions even for POTUS on declassifying, but he does have VERY BROAD POWERS with regard to classified information.

One of the members of Congress who commented after the newspaper’s revelations was Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho. According to CNN, he told reporters, "The minute the president speaks about it to someone, he has the ability to declassify anything at any time without any process."

"The majority ruling in the 1988 Supreme Court case Department of Navy vs. Egan -- which addressed the legal recourse of a Navy employee who had been denied a security clearance -- addresses this line of authority.

"The President, after all, is the ‘Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States’" according to Article II of the Constitution, the court’s majority wrote. "His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security ... flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant."

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POTUS doesn’t have ALL levels of clearance.

Explain, please. Clarify. Thanks