After you unspin this ABC article and narrow it down to the facts, Executive Order 13526 gives the president

 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-legal-authority-declassify-intelligence/story?id=47436559

After you unspin this ABC article and narrow it down to the facts, Executive Order 13526 gives the president very board powers about classifying and declassifying documents. They get some Harvard professor to say that it’s immoral and foolish BUT that it’s legal.

The final sentence takes the cake. All our current administration says is “oh that’s legal”.

Direct Quotes:

Executive Order 13526

As president, Trump has the legal power to declassify information. He also has the authority to share information with whomever he wants, including foreign adversaries.

Trump is protected under an executive order that was signed by Barack Obama in 2009 establishing a uniform system for "classifying, safeguarding and declassifying national security information."

The order allows the president to determine the system of designating classified information, and he is the ultimate authority over U.S. intelligence agencies, which gather and classify the information.

The Supreme Court confirmed as much in its 1988 ruling in Department of Navy v. Egan.

But the problem isn't legal — it's political, said Joseph Nye, a professor at Harvard University.

"It is a matter of policy and prudence," he explained. "Careless disclosure can dry up sources, whether it be the identities and lives of those in the field or the cooperation we get from liaison with other services, who have to protect their sources and methods."

While experts said that presidents may disclose classified information, it is rare for them to do so. As the head of the executive branch, Trump has the legal authority to disclose intelligence information, she said, but "the system assumes that a president acts in the interest of U.S. national security and that a president would not disclose intelligence information in a way that could be harmful simply in order to boast about his own access."

She added, "We've never had a president who defended himself by saying, 'Oh, it's lawful,' even though it's harmful to national security."

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