https://www.axios.com/2022/08/12/fbi...assified-trump
Wall Street Journal also confirming that classified and top secret information was taken from Trump's personal residence.
Which is "no big deal" because -The FBI found four sets of "top secret documents", three sets of "secret documents", and three sets of "confidential documents" — all of which the Justice Department argues are federal property, the WSJ found.
Given that the Trump administration "following the rules" was a rare occasion, and the primary reason why many of their efforts were overturned in court, like the attempted repeal of DACA, I am unconvinced.Trump’s lawyers argue the president used his authority to declassify the documents before he left office.
As the WSJ notes, a president has the power to declassify documents, but there are federal regulations that dictate that process.
Yeah, they said they are reviewing the warrant. If the warrant was released, and allowed to be released, CNN and MSNBC would be all over it as well. They aren't. So, yes, totally a trust me bro segment.
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I doubt he is going to let it go through. Just like he claimed he was going to release his taxes, but said his lawyers recommended against it because of the "audit".
Regarding the: BUT OBAMA'S 30 MILLION RECORDS FOR HIS PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY! nonsense
https://archive.ph/3xmGc
Another load of dishonest, bullshit, "whataboutism" from people desperate to defend what increasingly appears to be a serial-criminal who stole classified documents, including about nuclear technology, and brought them to his personal residence where he may be improperly sharing them with foreign entities. And for all we know, he was hiding them in Melania's closet. Or maybe the safe that didn't have a padlock. Who knows.The National Archives and Records Administration issued a statement Friday in an attempt to counter misstatements about former president Barack Obama’s presidential records after several days of misinformation that had been spread by former president Donald Trump and conservative commentators.
Since the FBI search of his Florida home and club this week for classified documents kept there, Trump has asserted in social media posts that Obama “kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified,” and that they were “taken to Chicago by President Obama.”
In its statement, NARA said that it obtained “exclusive legal and physical custody” of Obama’s records when he left office in 2017. It said that about 30 million pages of unclassified records were transferred to a NARA facility in the Chicago area and that they continue to be maintained “exclusively by NARA.”
Classified records from Obama are kept in a NARA facility in Washington, the statement said.
“As required by the [Presidential Records Act], former President Obama has no control over where and how NARA stores the Presidential records of his Administration,” the statement said.
Despite the official statement, Trump continued to peddle his false claims in light of The Washington Post report that classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items FBI agents sought in a search of Trump’s Florida residence Monday, according to people familiar with the investigation.
Within minutes of the statement from the Archives, Trump again pushed his evidence-free claim in response to the latest reports, saying, “What are they going to do with the 33 million pages of documents, many of which are classified, that President Obama took to Chicago?”
And right as I posted this. It is coming up on MSNBC that they now have the warrant.
No confirmation but Breitbart got the warrant so this is likely linked to Trump. The reason it is possible was the names of Federal Agents in the warrant were not redacted in Breitbart. Thus person who gave them to Breitbart did not redact and then of course Breitbart passed this with.
Democrats are the best! I will never ever question a Democrat again. I LOVE the Democrats!
Are you ready to laugh your ass off?
“The Heritage Foundation's [
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‘If any president decides to declassify a document and doesn’t tell anybody — but he has made the decision to declassify something — then the document is declassified,’ Stimson said.”
So they are saying if you do it in your mind, than it is declassified. Yes people you don't need to announce it or sign papers, just think it in your mind.
You can stop laughing now.
Democrats are the best! I will never ever question a Democrat again. I LOVE the Democrats!
wat
Cool, so no paper trails needed, no processes. Just any president can declassify any information at any point because, "I actually decided to declassify it without telling anyone while I was still in office 20 years ago. You can't prove that I didn't!"
Heritage Foundation is going full-on authoritarian and they're not even trying to hide it.
There's not, because there's no discussion to be had. These people are actively the dumbest, most amoral people around.He added that “there’s a rich debate about whether or not a document is declassified if a president has decided but not communicated it outside of his own head,” but Stimson said he would rather be the defense than the prosecution if the dispute ever went to trial.
Edit: Get ready for Jimmy Carter to declassify and publicly share all the classified information from his time as POTUS! There's literally nobody that can prove that he didn't mentally declassify the documents before he left office in 1981.
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So what should Obama say he totally declassified and open up for FOIA?
https://twitter.com/hugolowell/statu...61944552652801
Note the source (seems to be true though, seeing lots of chatter on it) but...
Note about 18 USC 793 specifically - https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?...edition=prelimNEW via Breitbart: Trump under investigation per search warrant for:
18 USC 2071 — Concealment, removal or mutilation
18 USC 793 — Gathering, transmitting or losing defence information
18 USC 1519 — Destruction, alteration or falsification of records in Federal investigations
That's the espionage act