Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To remove official security classification from (a document).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb to lift the restriction on publication [of documents] by reducing or eliminating the secrecy classification of.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to remove the
classification from; to lift the restrictions on
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb lift the restriction on and make available again
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Examples
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He avoids dealing with why the president decided to "declassify" that NIE without informing the CIA.
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Did the President only "declassify" the key judgments section, or did he also "declassify" the portion of the text that Libby misrepresented to Miller?
Archive 2006-04-01 Glenn Greenwald 2006
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Did the President only "declassify" the key judgments section, or did he also "declassify" the portion of the text that Libby misrepresented to Miller?
Bush's Catch-22 Glenn Greenwald 2006
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The term "declassify" as used herein means to remove the security classification.
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Attorney General Eric Holder has agreed after a long internal battle (against John Brennan) to declassify and release memos from the Bush Justice Department detailing specific techniques allowed for use against “high-value” detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
duh pookie 2009
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Attorney General Eric Holder has agreed after a long internal battle (against John Brennan) to declassify and release memos from the Bush Justice Department detailing specific techniques allowed for use against “high-value” detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
duh pookie 2009
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A more sensible approach would be to declassify relevant documents pertaining to just one or two regions, and for my money the Middle East makes the most sense.
Nikolas Kozloff: Wikileaks Needs to Fine Tune Its Media Strategy Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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How about we get the REAL truth behind this administration and declassify everything Bush/Cheney used "executive privilege" to protect?
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A more sensible approach would be to declassify relevant documents pertaining to just one or two regions, and for my money the Middle East makes the most sense.
Nikolas Kozloff: Wikileaks Needs to Fine Tune Its Media Strategy Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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In an interview with Fox News last week, former Vice President Dick Cheney announced that he had “formally asked the CIA to take steps to declassify those memos,” which reportedly demonstrate the “success” that enhanced interrogations had in compelling high-value Al Qaeda operatives to provide intelligence that helped to protect the United States from terrorist attacks.
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