Charles Stimson, without a hint of irony, says:
“If any president decides to declassify a document and doesn’t tell anybody — but he has made the decision to declassify something — then the document is declassified.”
“There’s a rich debate about whether or not a document is declassified if a president has decided but not communicated it outside of his own head.”
I’m so glad to learn about this. Accordingly, I’m going to head to Best Buy, decide in my head to purchase the latest iPhone, but not bother with the cashier, or with the petty details of a payment and stuff like that. I will just take it home the way the former guy took his stuff home.