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The president is ultimate authority to declassify anything he so chooses: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/may/16/james-risch/does-presi

The president is ultimate authority to declassify anything he so chooses: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/may/16/james-risch/does-president-have-ability-declassify-anything-an/ https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/may...

lisper 7y ago
Sure. But just because it wasn't illegal doesn't mean it wasn't stupid.
- marshray 7y ago
  Agree this was not appropriate for the specific post it was in reply to. But notice how much of the discussion here does involve terms like "classified" or "cleared for public release".
  - geofft 7y ago
    Classification / clearing has two parts: the technical classification status, and the social process of what gets classified/declassified, how, and why. If I delete a production VM at my job, zero part of the postmortem will involve figuring out why I had access to do so. I have root on all our hypervisors, of course I have access to do so. That doesn't answer the question of why I did so, whether I knew it was a production VM, whether our standard tools should have safety checks (even if I can muck around with ssh and virsh), etc.
geggam 7y ago
Why is this downvoted? It is factual. Just because you dont like the president ?
- geofft 7y ago
  Because it doesn't answer the question. "What are the implications of running rm -rf as root" is not answered by "root is allowed to run rm -rf".
  - geggam 7y ago
    rm -rf is not actually bad. rm -rf / as root ( to what you refer) will run until it runs into the proc file system but it too is not bad if that is what you want to do ... and as root you have the ability to make that choice. As president you have the ability to make the choice to declassify anything. As president you have the ability to choose to murder people via the military for 60 days without congressional approval Perhaps the better question is "Why does the president have so much power ? "
    - jarfil 7y ago
      Much like root, the president has the power of making split second decissions in extreme situations... and that's all right. But even dictators need to somehow explain their decisions or they risk getting kicked out.

lisper 7y ago

Sure. But just because it wasn't illegal doesn't mean it wasn't stupid.

marshray 7y ago
Agree this was not appropriate for the specific post it was in reply to. But notice how much of the discussion here does involve terms like "classified" or "cleared for public release".
- geofft 7y ago
  Classification / clearing has two parts: the technical classification status, and the social process of what gets classified/declassified, how, and why. If I delete a production VM at my job, zero part of the postmortem will involve figuring out why I had access to do so. I have root on all our hypervisors, of course I have access to do so. That doesn't answer the question of why I did so, whether I knew it was a production VM, whether our standard tools should have safety checks (even if I can muck around with ssh and virsh), etc.

geggam 7y ago

Why is this downvoted? It is factual. Just because you dont like the president ?

geofft 7y ago
Because it doesn't answer the question. "What are the implications of running rm -rf as root" is not answered by "root is allowed to run rm -rf".
- geggam 7y ago
  rm -rf is not actually bad. rm -rf / as root ( to what you refer) will run until it runs into the proc file system but it too is not bad if that is what you want to do ... and as root you have the ability to make that choice. As president you have the ability to make the choice to declassify anything. As president you have the ability to choose to murder people via the military for 60 days without congressional approval Perhaps the better question is "Why does the president have so much power ? "
  - jarfil 7y ago
    Much like root, the president has the power of making split second decissions in extreme situations... and that's all right. But even dictators need to somehow explain their decisions or they risk getting kicked out.