How Government Secrets Are Declassified and Disclosed

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Recently our president Donald Trump talked in a meeting about government secrets of the Islamic State to the Russians. This jeopardized the ally's intelligence source and has raised interest in legal issues surrounding disclosures of classified information. Luckily Mr. Trump has the authority to disclose the information. It is part of his constitutional powers as commander in chief. Apparently Trump's attempt to declassify the information didn't work and it is still out there.

This has to do with what we have discussed in class because we have talked about the powers of the president and what he has as far as commanders in anything. He can shut down any classified information and has the constitutional authority to control what happens in anything. He used those powers to recently to try and disclose the classified information he gave out but it apparently didn't make a difference. This just shows how powerful the president can actually be in the government and powerful enough to control or shut down anything that could put the government in jeopardy.

My opinion on this situation is that I think that it was a bit careless of the president to spill the classified information to the Russians during a meeting. This could actually be so bad and if he does it again with anything that could be worse he put our country possibly in danger and jeopardize our safety. The president isn't supposed to leak any information about our government if he is responsible so again I think it was very careless and unprofessional of him to do that. He needs to be monitored on anything he could say or prepare what he is gonna say better so there is no potential risk of this happening again.