blackhawk
Diamond Member
This is looking more and more like just another partisan clusterfuck.
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A President doesn't "pack" boxes of documents, that's done by the GSA. Donald Trump has been storing the boxes for over 18 months without knowing the contents of them, and has more than likely never opened any of them. Hell, people said that Donald Trump didn’t even take a CIA briefing, so why do they think he’s digging through those boxes and reading files?
Now Hillary Clinton exposed the country to far more danger because she had an electronic version of those records which could be hacked from Tehran, from Moscow or Beijing, a physical document in a basement.
You’ve got to physically get into Mar a Lago, which it’s not an easy thing to do.
Nope. Not in that way, but you can believe it if you want. To know for sure, you should research attorney-cliant privelage instead of just going by what you think you once heard on a Matlock rerun.
And you can cite the law that states this then since you stated as though it was a fact.
Not the bobble head stating it on whatever news site, the actual law.
....Nope. Not in that way, but you can believe it if you want. To know for sure, you should research attorney-cliant privelage instead of just going by what you think you once heard on a Matlock rerun.
Then it can be linked.The laws for declassification are made by each President. That was Trump's law which he had every constitutional right to do just as any other President.
Not the 1st time the FBI seized such info.The stink just keeps getting worse.
FBI seizes privileged Trump records during raid; DOJ opposes request for independent review: sources
EXCLUSIVE: The FBI seized records covered by attorney-client privilege during its raid of Mar-a-Lago, sources told Fox News, saying the DOJ denied Trump requests for a special master to review those records.www.foxnews.com
While everyone else is watching on CCTV. It's a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.*Amazing the files that can appear when the Left-BI orders attorneys out of a house they are searching.
Yep.Nope.
The president’s classification and declassification powers are broadAnd you can cite the law that states this then since you stated as though it was a fact.
Not the bobble head stating it on whatever news site, the actual law.
Do you honestly believe the liberal news media is a trustworthy source?They did.
That does not verify your OP. Who is the source because if it was Trump or Trump backers then it is not a trustworthy source.
This was hashed out in 2018, the crime-fraud exception.Not the 1st time the FBI seized such info.
No, I don't. None of the major news networks are trustworthy.Do you honestly believe the liberal news media is a trustworthy source?
Eight Anti-Trump Narratives The Media Finally Had To Admit Were False All Along
Less than a year after Trump left office, it turns out a lot of the media narratives about him weredailycaller.com
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There are now 21 on-the-record denials rebutting The Atlantics bombshell alleging President Trump called American soldiers losers and suckers....www.realclearpolitics.com
And?The president’s classification and declassification powers are broad
Experts agreed that the president, as commander-in-chief, is ultimately responsible for classification and declassification. When someone lower in the chain of command handles classification and declassification duties -- which is usually how it’s done -- it’s because they have been delegated to do so by the president directly, or by an appointee chosen by the president.
The majority ruling in the 1988 Supreme Court case Department of Navy vs. Egan -- which addressed the legal recourse of a Navy employee who had been denied a security clearance -- addresses this line of authority.
"The President, after all, is the ‘Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States’" according to Article II of the Constitution, the court’s majority wrote. "His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security ... flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant."
Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy, said that such authority gives the president the authority to "classify and declassify at will."
In fact, Robert F. Turner, associate director of the University of Virginia's Center for National Security Law, said that "if Congress were to enact a statute seeking to limit the president’s authority to classify or declassify national security information, or to prohibit him from sharing certain kinds of information with Russia, it would raise serious separation of powers constitutional issues."
The official documents governing classification and declassification stem from executive orders. But even these executive orders aren’t necessarily binding on the president. The president is not "obliged to follow any procedures other than those that he himself has prescribed," Aftergood said. "And he can change those."
Point being he has the authority to classify and declassify documents at will and doesnt have to follow any specific procedure.And?
the claim is not that Trump could have declassified the documents. The claim was that him taking them with him automatically declassified them. This is simply not the case as far as I can tell and if it were you would have provided the relevant link rather than a link to something that is not relevant.
It does speak to Trump's overall competence if he really did take a bunch of classified documents that he should not have, refused to return them and did not bother to simply declassify them when he took them.
I do not even think we have confirmation that the FBI took the documents because they were classified in the first place, all we have is conjecture from talking heads. If it is the case, however, then the very act of taking them to his home does not declassify them. The acting president actually needs to exercise those powers, they do not exercise themselves.
The stink just keeps getting worse.
FBI seizes privileged Trump records during raid; DOJ opposes request for independent review: sources
EXCLUSIVE: The FBI seized records covered by attorney-client privilege during its raid of Mar-a-Lago, sources told Fox News, saying the DOJ denied Trump requests for a special master to review those records.www.foxnews.com
The defense of POS trump truly stinks.The stink just keeps getting worse.
He had.Point being he has the authority to classify and declassify documents at will and doesnt have to follow any specific procedure.
Great.... he still can't just take the documents.Point being he has the authority to classify and declassify documents at will and doesnt have to follow any specific procedure.