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Security Classification Policy and Procedure: : E.O. 12958, as Amended / Kevin R. Kosar, Harold Relyea.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Kosar, Kevin R., author.
- Relyea, Harold, author.
- Series:
- CRS report for Congress ; 97-771.
- CRS report for Congress ; 97-771
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Security classification (Government documents)--United States.
- Security classification (Government documents).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (12 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : Congressional Research Service, 2007.
- Summary:
- Largely prescribed in a series of successive presidential executive orders issued over the past 50 years, security classification policy and procedure provide the rationale and arrangements for designating information officially secret for reasons of national security, and for its declassification as well. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the first executive order (E.O.8381) in 1940. Current security classification policy may be found in Executive Order 12958, which was signed by President William Clinton on April 17, 1995. It "prescribes a uniform system for classifying, safeguarding, and declassifying national security information." As issued, E.O. 12958 declared, "If there is significant doubt about the need to classify information, it shall not be classified." Additionally, the order stated "If there is significant doubt about the appropriate level of classification, it shall be classified at the lower level."
- Notes:
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