Just to add a thought. Why, would such a basic and open letter stating the obvious chain of command after a administration change be " CLASSIFIED"? This letter obvious was CLASSIFIED at one point, because if you look at it. It is marked UNCLASSIFIED now.
Does this seem odd or am i just over thinking this. Anyone with better knowledge of such things please educate me.
JCS has no executive authority. They're an advisory council.
Disinformation works both ways.
OK, gotcha.
there is a video circulating today that explained this whole fiesta. you will find it
Monkeywerx put out a good video today about the Dec 10, 2020 EO regarding chain of succession for the SoD. EO #13963.
It was something I'd forgotten about but, it puts all of this in perfect order. JOC isn't on there, whatsoever.
everything must display the classification that it has as it determines distribution. unclassified simply means that it isn't classifed and can be distributed on unclassified channels like the WWW.
No it can be unclassified from the beginning.
Yeah, someone already explained it, but thank you.