The White House told the Department of Justice (DOJ) that President Donald Trump’s tweets about declassifying “any & all documents” related to the Russia probe and the Clinton-email investigation didn’t actually declassify anything.
The DOJ disclosed the message in a filing before a federal court on Oct. 13, in response to a motion in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking the release of interview summaries from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit asked the court whether Trump’s declassification should be taken to mean that the records sought are now declassified.
