Presidents have the authority to declassify documents at will. Presidents can determine what is a government document and what is a personal document. Among presidential government documents a former president can restrict access to most any document he wishes for 12 years after he leaves office according to the Presidential Records Act. Hillary Clinton was merely a Secretary of State and did not have declassification authority.
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