The word "declassify" is correct and can be used in written English in the context of making some type of document or information accessible to the public
For example, "The government recently declassified documents related to the 2015 scandal."
Two US congressmen introduced a bill on Thursday compelling the Obama administration to declassify the secret legal justifications for the wide-ranging surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency.
The Kentucky Republican joined other members of congress at a press conference on Tuesday to promote bipartisan legislation urging Obama to declassify the pages, which are widely believed to detail ties between Saudi Arabian funders and al-Qaida.
The company representatives said they had used secret information about the properties of the missiles, which the Russian defence ministry had agreed to declassify especially for the purposes of the report.
Rand Paul urged President Obama to declassify 28 additional pages of the 9/11 commission's report on Tuesday, but made clear that he does not intend to exercise his constitutional prerogative as a senator and read the pages on the floor of Congress – yet.
"What I've asked the intelligence community to do is see how much of this we can declassify without further compromising the program".
During a House intelligence committee hearing on Tuesday, representatives of the NSA, the Justice Department, the Director of National Intelligence and the FBI indicated that they were willing to declassify the secret court's rulings, provided they could figure out a way to exclude references to classified information while making the public version of the rulings comprehensible.
Yet the president struck a surprisingly defiant tone, insisting that his administration had acted on the best intelligence available at the time and claiming that his decision to declassify the operation and initiate a review was a sign of American exceptionalism.
First, the law requires the government to declassify FISA court decisions that are deemed "significant".
The State Department is being urged to declassify them, which would give the Pentagon more chance to fraternise.
Another Moscow court recently brushed aside an attempt by Memorial, a Russian human-rights group, to declassify the Katyn files.The relatives pursuing cases over Katyn insist that they do not want financial compensation from the Russians.
One of Poland's foremost historians, he was a leading campaigner for Russia to declassify documents relating to the Katyn massacre.
