Marc Short, former top aide to Mike Pence, calls Trump’s claim that presidents can declassify documents by thinking about it “absurd”
Marc Short, top aide to former Vice President Mike Pence, called former President Trump's assertion that presidents can declassify documents just by thinking about it "absurd."Short made the comments in an interview with CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge, after Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity this week that presidents can declassify documents "even by thinking about it." Herridge asked Short if he shared that understanding of how declassification works. "That's absurd, obviously," Short responded. "And I think it would make it very difficult for the intelligence community to have a classification system if that was the case."
Asked if he and Pence operated under that standard, Short replied, "Of course not." Fed...