18 U.S. Code 793 - Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information

[NightWatcher]

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793

Whoever, lawfully having possession of, access to, control over, or being entrusted with any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the national defense, or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation, willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it; or

[pnwmom]

1. Unfortunately, the President is allowed to declassify intelligence.

But he has no right to declassify and share ALLIED intelligence -- even if he didn't technically break a law.

[grantcart]

2. Which applies to everyone except the President. The President has automatic authority to declassify

any material at any time.

[Voltaire2]

3. Unlikely to apply to the president.

The president can declassify anything at any time.

[napi21]

4. Doesn't apply to the President because HE can classify or declassify anything at any time.nt

[C_U_L8R]

5. You don't mess around with Israel's security

Everyone from Netanyahu to Adelson must be having a shit fit over Trump's dumbass blunder.