res are classified. The Court finds no merit as to the newspaper's contentions in numbers 1 and 3, and declines to render an opinion as to number 2. As to number 1, the newspaper here has no standing to argue that they were unaware that the information was classified and as a result were proceeding blindly. Rather, they were specifically warned, not once, but twice, as to the national security nature of the information they had received. Indeed, they conceded to this fact. As to number 3, that even the declassification procedures are classified is not relevant to this proceeding, as the issue in not ripe for adjudication here. The issue inherent in number 2 applies to numerous statutes, not just the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. The Court, therefore, declines the newspaper's invitation to deliver here, in this case, a broad ruling on the duties of the Executive Branch as they relate to notification of declassification.
This Court is not being asked to decide and therefore makes no specific ruling hereby on whether the seemingly broad lang
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