A federal judge ruled against a multiyear effort to further declassify information from Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act filings related to onetime Trump campaign associate Carter Page.
Amit Mehta, an Obama-appointee judge for the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., agreed with the Justice Department in a three-page opinion that President Trump’s tweets and a White House press release did not constitute formal declassification orders. The Monday ruling reinforced a March decision, which reached a similar conclusion.
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