Reference:
Dundukov M.Y..
Legal standards of protection
of information on matters
of national security of the United States
// National Security. – 2014. – № 5.
– P. 688-700.
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Abstract: This article is dedicated to the analysis of judicial standards, which regulate the policy
of classified information pertaining to matters of national security of the United States. The article reveals the policy of assigning different levels of secrecy, as well as the process and conditions
under which the term of secrecy can be extended for a documents requiring various levels
of clearance. The article also goes over the process established by US legislation of declassifying
documents and disclosure of historical materials to the general population, which could not previously
be accessed; it demonstrates the role of special commissions created in the United States in
order to monitor the protection of secret documents and disclosure of information that has already
been declassified. Article is based on the method of historical analysis and the method of analyzing
documents. The documents being analyzed in this process are those of US Federal Laws and US
Presidential Orders. The scientific novelty of this article is in the fact that the author is first to sum
up the experience of the United States over the last decades, pertaining to the area of legislative
regulations on protection of information on matters of national security. He also explains the role
of Federal Laws and delegated legislation issued by the President of the United States in regulating
the process of classifying document of the Federal US Government. The author reveals the role of
the Freedom of Information Act ensuring the proper legal protection of information concerning the
matters of national security.
Keywords: National security, protection of information, classified information, declassification of documents, executive order, delegated legislation, Federal Law, freedom of information, government official, intelligence service.
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