Oldestyle
Diamond Member
Let me get this straight? You claim that a President needs to tell people about a secret in order to keep the secret protected? Did that make any sense to you when you thought it up?------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
You are right. Nobody else jumped on your hangin' curve.
So let's do this:
Imagine Don Trump, while shaving in the morning, decides he wants to remove the protection from one or more of America's secrets. So that decision is made. He decides.
But then, he tells nobody.
How would the people, the agencies, the spies, the foreign nation who provided the intel know that the secret they depend upon, that they are charged with protecting and tending to, that could lead to their execution if revealed.....well, how would they know the secret ain't secret anymore?
Which, it is easy to imagine, could, may, potentially.....lead to one of those parties making a wrong assumption in the belief that the secret remains secret. And something stupid, tragic, fatal......then happens. Happens because no one who is invested in that secret remaining secret knew that it wasn't a secret any longer.
Get the picture?
If no one is informed a secret ain't a secret anymore......then it is still secret.
It becomes a 'non'-secret only when Don Trump tells someone it ain't a secret anymore.
Secrets are secret for a reason. So, who was informed that those secrets were no longer protected?
Will that person testify that he or she was informed by Don Trump that he removed the protections from one or more of America's secrets? In short, can anyone back up Don Trump's assertion he removed the protections?
Again...what person is a President required to tell when he classifies or declassifies documents? You can't answer that...can you? It's why you gave us that "Kamala like" reply. Don't look now, Chilly but you just struck out on that "curve ball" and you didn't look good doing it!