declassify
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A 2021 Presidential order required the FBI to declassify files relating to its 9/11 investigations, including into Bayoumi.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Wilson wants the board to declassify immediately so all directors are elected annually.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
Wilson has also submitted a proposal that calls for the board to immediately declassify, so that all directors are elected annually by shareholders.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday which he says would declassify federal records surrounding the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2025
Certainly they still have it classified; staff-brass'd rather lose an eye than declassify anything.
From Graveyard of Dreams by H. Beam Piper
The panel also used its ruling to offer a public primer on how the government classifies and declassifies government secrets, and why that process is important.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2022
Britain rarely declassifies intelligence in this manner, unlike the United States, though it has done so before on issues involving Russia.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2022
Family members of the victims of the 11 September 2001 terror attacks have called on President Joe Biden to stay away from memorial events unless he declassifies files about the attacks.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2021
On Wednesday, Spain declassified intelligence reports that had warned of potential "mass entries" by migrants into Ceuta just before the incident happened.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
The revelations emerged in documents declassified by the Spanish government amid accusations it failed to give the full story of the migrant influx.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
But this time around, it’s not about the declassified information, or even the aliens themselves; it’s about our collective reaction to a global reckoning.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
Meanwhile, earlier this spring, the U.S. government declassified another batch of UFO files and the response was roughly equivalent to a collective shrug.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
In 2015, the agency declassified over fifty thousand pages of Friedman materials, including some of the items taken from the Friedmans’ library.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
Wilson proposed declassifying the board for annual elections and a Brand Product Committee, the latter of which was rejected.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
"They keep declassifying things and more seems to bubble up. It's remarkable."
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2024
Meadows told prosecutors he had no recollection of what Trump described as a "standing order" automatically declassifying documents he took from the Oval Office, multiple sources told the outlet.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2023
The request comes as lawmakers in the upper and lower chambers warm to the idea of declassifying government documents related to unidentified anomalous phenomenon, or UAPs, more commonly called UFOs.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
The Supreme Court upheld the ministry’s decision on Feb. 7, arguing that the NGO had not demonstrated sufficient public interest to warrant declassifying the licenses.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
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