Quote Originally Posted by tebowlives View Post
Why would it matter one way or the other?
"I'm going to take these documents" vs "I've declassified them and I'm going to take this documents"
There's no review board that has to okay it.
Classified documents are by definition property of the federal government.

And that's not even getting into all of the various handling procedures for classified documents and the associated laws that tell you where you can have them, how you can transmit them, and where you can store them.