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Executive Order 12958, as amended, "Classified National Security Information" ( PDF Format) (E.O. 12958), created the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel, or "ISCAP." The Order directed the ISCAP to perform three critical functions:
- deciding on appeals by parties whose requests for declassification of information under the mandatory declassification review (MDR) provisions of the Order have been denied by the classifying agency;
- approving, denying or amending agency exemptions from the automatic declassification provisions of the Order; and
- deciding appeals brought by authorized holders who challenge the classification status of information.
The work of the ISCAP is crucial to the implementation of E.O. 12958, as ISCAP's decisions determine the cutting edge between what information is declassified and what information remains classified.
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