Couchpotato
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I didn’t. I was making an entirely different point that appears to have gone over your head.
Yeah your "point" was off base from the start. If you'd like me to go over how I can but I somehow doubt you'd get it.
For starters the President doesnt have to "assert" (I dont think you actually know what this word means) I assume you mean inform anyone that he's declassified a document. There's no authority for him to inform, as he is the authority. It might be a bad system, but it is the system we have. I won't disagree that he probably should inform (not assert) the originator of the document that he is declassifying it but he has no requirement to do so, and without knowing what the documents are there's no way to know who that is. For all we know the WH was the classification originator. Do you have any information that they weren't? I haven't seen anything indicating who was the orginator on any of the documents in Trumps or Biden's case. Secondly. The FOIA issue. Him taking a hard copy of a declassified document wouldn't make it so people couldn't FOIA it. Records are kept in soft copy. Do you think the US Government has these huge warehouses of classified and declassified documents stored and you have to go check them out? If that were the case, they would have known exactly which documents they were looking for when they raided Mar A Lago. The biggest issue with the discussion about classified documents is that 95% of the people participating in the discussion have never been in that world and are just talking out of their ass. You included.