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Anonymous ID: e96ae3 Dec. 22, 2020, 4:02 p.m. No.12138288   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8385

EZRA COHEN-WATNICK

Established by statute, the Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB) advises the President of the United States regarding issues pertaining to national classification and declassification policy.

 

The PIDB is an advisory committee established by the United States Congress with the official mandate of promoting the fullest possible public access to a thorough, accurate, and reliable documentary record of significant U.S. national security decisions and activities. The PIDB advises the President and other executive branch officials on the identification, collection, review for declassification, and release of declassified records and materials of archival value. The PIDB also advises the President and other executive branch officials on policies deriving from the issuance by the President of Executive orders regarding the classification and declassification of national security information.

Anonymous ID: e96ae3 Dec. 22, 2020, 4:04 p.m. No.12138317   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8445 >>8470

DECLASS INCOMING

 

Standards for decision. A recommendation to declassify a record in whole or in part requires a determination by the Board, after careful consideration of the views of the original classifying authority, that declassification is in the public interest. A decision to recommend declassification in whole or in part requires the affirmative vote of a majority of a quorum of the Board, and of no less than four members of the Board, and the vote of each member present shall be recorded. Resolution of Requests. The Board may recommend that the President: (1) take no action pursuant to the request; (2) declassify the record(s) in whole or in part, pursuant to action taken in accordance with paragraph C; or (3) remand the matter to the agency responsible for the record(s) for further consideration and a timely response to the Board. Notification. The Chair shall promptly convey to the President, through the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and to the agency head responsible for the record(s), the Board's recommendation, including a written justification for its recommendation. The approval and amendment of these bylaws shall require the affirmative vote of at least five of the Board's members. The Executive Secretary shall submit the approved bylaws and their amendments for publication in the Federal Register. Protection of Classified Information. Any classified information contained in the request file shall be handled and protected in accordance with the Order and its implementing directives. Information that is subject to a request for declassification under this section shall remain classified unless and until a final decision is made by the President or by the agency head responsible for the record(s) to declassify it.

 

Decisions to declassify and release information rest with the President or the agency responsible for the records, not this Board.

 

The Board reports annually to Congress. Amendments to the Board's bylaws are published in the Federal Register.