What are some opposite words for declassify?
Antonyms for declassify
diˈklæs əˌfaɪ
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term declassify.
Princeton's WordNet
declassify(verb)
lift the restriction on and make available again
"reclassify the documents"
Antonyms:
classify
How to use declassify in a sentence?
I do, I have plansto declassify and release. I have plans to absolutely release, i have some very talented people working for me, lawyers, and they really didnt want me to do it early on. ... A lot of people wanted me to do it a long time ago. Im glad I didnt do it.We got a great result without having to do it, but we will. One of the reasons that my lawyers didnt want me to do it, is they said, if I do it, theyll call it a form of obstruction.
If the president simply tweeted out an image from classified briefing that utilizes our most advanced overhead collection capabilities, it is no doubt welcome news to our adversaries, while he has the authority to declassify any federal document, Twitter is not a legitimate or responsible way to do so.
It's one thing if the President has a detailed and thoughtful conversation with the intelligence community about what to declassify, what to release to the public, but if, on the other hand, this was simply the President looking for an opportunity to attack his predecessor, and giving little thought to the consequences of what he might be disclosing, that is a big problem.
If the White House is so concerned about this, they can tomorrow declassify those documents, clearly this is more about distracting.
Hes looking at the same documents that I am, hes not sharing his findings or the work that hes doing. But Im coordinating with him to make sure that he has the intelligence documents that he needs to do his work. And what I dont want to do is declassify something that might prejudice his work. So were going to have to coordinate as we go forward with the completion of his work with my ability to declassify documents.
Words popularity by usage frequency
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