You have been quite clear on what you are willing to defend.

>>>>Is a President, on the eve of his reelection campaign, legally entitled to ward off political embarrassment and conceal past failures in the exercise of his office by unilaterally and informally declassifying selected — as well as false and misleading — portions of a classified National Intelligence Estimate that he has previously refused to declassify, in order to cause such information to be secretly disclosed under false pretenses in the name of a "former Hill staffer" to a single reporter, intending that reporter to publish such false and misleading information in a prominent national newspaper?"
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>>>>Defending that position reveals a lot about a person.
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>>>I do not need to defend that.
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>>You have been defending that.
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>Am I not being clear? As far as I know there are no limits on Presidential authority to declassify information. If there are no limits then the circumstances are irrelevent. Therefore the answer remains yes.
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>Again, if there are legal limits that I am not aware which address Alterman's points then please present them.