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<backing away, smiling>Oh look at the flop sweat of another Useful Idiot
Keep in mind the President can declassify anything he wants whenever he wants to.Looks like trump hiding secret documents already backfired on him. He already had a chance to return the doccuments, when they got those 15 boxes full, but the orange cheat thought he could hide some of them. Trump is an idiot if he thinks he can get away with it this time.
We should always try to correct problems in our nation by first voting. It has a long history of working.Crazy right wingers have been having wet dreams about a civil war for a long time. You're so childishly silly.
He can't if he isn't president. It is also not an answer. You guys are up in arms about this, so I'm asking what prerogatives you believe an EX-PRESIDENT has? Are they above the law?He can de-classify
Flop sweat ensues
Problem is Trump is NO LONGER president. In your snippet do you see any indication otherwise?Keep in mind the President can declassify anything he wants whenever he wants to.
Does the president have 'the ability to declassify anything at any time'?
www.globalsecurity.org
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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."
Also does it say anywhere that once a president leaves office he's allowed to take and keep government documents regardless of they are classified? Can you find anything that supports that?Keep in mind the President can declassify anything he wants whenever he wants to.
Does the president have 'the ability to declassify anything at any time'?
www.globalsecurity.org
***snip***
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."
He can't if he isn't president. It is also not an answer. You guys are up in arms about this, so I'm asking what prerogatives you believe an EX-PRESIDENT has? Are they above the law?
Sorry whataboutisms aren't answers either. Even IF you can show me hypocritical. Something I promise you you can't, your position still would be wrong to. So I'll ask again.Apparently only Democrats are above the law. But maybe those days are about to end
Sorry whataboutisms aren't answers either. Even IF you can show me hypocritical. Something I promise you you can't, your position still would be wrong to. So I'll ask again.
Do you believe an EX-PRESIDENT is above the law?
...so don't do anything stupid.
Bide your time.
Win the House.
Investigate everyone.
And you will win stupid prizes. Just like the LOTUS.Do you believe the FBI is above the law?
We can play Stupid Internet Games all day
No I don't think the FBI is above the law. These are not very hard questions.Do you believe the FBI is above the law?
We can play Stupid Internet Games all day
That was literally Trump's plan in 2020....Create a slate of unofficial electors, have them declare him the winner, have Pence and the GOP governors declare that the fake electors were the legit EC and that Trump won, then declare martial law.Biden is hoping a militia group tries to take him out. Then he declares martial law and stops all elections. From there Hitler will have a second coming...
This is by design... they want this to happen so they can keep power permanently.
You’re talking to people who won’t listen....so don't do anything stupid.
Bide your time.
Win the House.
Investigate everyone.
Yeah, that worked so well with the whole fake FISA warrants Russian Dossier....so don't do anything stupid.
Bide your time.
Win the House.
Investigate everyone.
That will likely be the main argument. Of course Trump may hay declassified the documents he took but was he allowed to take them?Also does it say anywhere that once a president leaves office he's allowed to take and keep government documents regardless of they are classified? Can you find anything that supports that?
The Repubs will have to start governing like Progs do. Either Progs will stop, or it will be nasty in D.C. and the nation....so don't do anything stupid.
Bide your time.
Win the House.
Investigate everyone.
This will backfire on you stupid loons.Looks like trump hiding secret documents already backfired on him. He already had a chance to return the doccuments, when they got those 15 boxes full, but the orange cheat thought he could hide some of them. Trump is an idiot if he thinks he can get away with it this time.
Odd that he didn't mention de-classifying anything. He claimed he didn't have anything.He can de-classify
Flop sweat ensues