Presidents have the authority to declassify documents at will, whereas other officials like Vice Presidents do not have that same power.

“unlike Trump who was the president who can unclassify anything he wanted. So the president can take any document that's classified and just go, it's unclassified now. Why? Cuz I'm the president and I said so.”

Governments often misuse classification to protect the reputations of leaders rather than to protect national security.

“classification really should be very narrowly used to to the things that if disclosed would damage the National Security of the country as opposed to the things that if exposed would damage the reputation of a certain senior leader”