Schiff: Trump Thinking He Can Declassify Without a Process Shows How Dangerous He Is

No president has "taken" documents. After leaving office the documents go to the archivist of the national archives. Who goes through them and then releases those that are deemed part of the presidential records. At which time they come under the control of the former president who then has the authority over those records an authority by the way that is limited in time. In other words at NO TIME are they his property. Nor are they just his to take. There is a process to that. Described in the Presidential records act.

As to some magic" declassified by default". I would love to know where you think such authority is derived from without documentation attesting to the fact?

Declassification is NOT a mind trick. It has consequences in the real world.
Obama took 33 million documents to be digitized and put into archives run by the Obama Foundation. Obama negotiated with NARA. No one raided him. Trump was, in fact, doing what most presidents have done, he was getting with NARA however, he is not allowed the same justice as Obama. Tell me, why should 33 million classified Obama documents be put under his control?
 
Liar.

Nope...lol

 
Obama took 33 million documents to be digitized and put into archives run by the Obama Foundation. Obama negotiated with NARA. No one raided him. Trump was, in fact, doing what most presidents have done, he was getting with NARA however, he is not allowed the same justice as Obama. Tell me, why should 33 million classified Obama documents be put under his control?
Lol. Obama never received a subpoena. Obam never ignored the subpoena. Obama never lied to the FBI after they came to his house to take back documents AFTER he was subpoenaed. Obama wasn't found to have documents at his home that had top secret/ sci on its cover. ( something that triggered NARA's referral to the FBI)
 
Lol. Obama never received a subpoena. Obam never ignored the subpoena. Obama never lied to the FBI after they came to his house to take back documents AFTER he was subpoenaed. Obama wasn't found to have documents at his home that had top secret/ sci on its cover. ( something that triggered NARA's referral to the FBI)
CORRECT!! Obama was never prosecuted like Trump. Do you ever ask yourself why? Trump never lied he was cooperating with NARA. No one has seen Obama's documents and no one is raiding his personal archives. If Trump (as POTUS) says a document is declassified it's declassified. Just like Obama.
 

Schiff: Trump Thinking He Can Declassify Without a Process Shows How Dangerous He Is

25 Sep 2022 ~~ By Pam Key

Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that former President Donald Trump claiming a president can declassify information by thinking about it showed how dangerous he is to the national security of the United States.
Last week on Fox News, Trump said, “There doesn’t have to be a process, as I understand it. You know, there’s different people who say different things. As I understand, there doesn’t have to be. If you’re the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying, ‘It’s declassified.’ Even by thinking about it.


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The fact that Schiff thinks the elected President must bow and scrape before unelected bureaucrats to beg permission to declassify shows how dangerous Schitt is.
Trump signed off on a STANDING ORDER that allowed him to do just that.
But yet Crooked Hillary running her State Department server from her home was OK.
 
Because Obama wasn’t a moron who took hundreds of classified documents home without telling anyone.
In that case neither did Trump, he's not a moron, you just believe lies that support your TDS hatred. Show us your proof.
 
Sure he did.
Yeah, there just couldn't be ANY classified documents in those 33 million!!! These lefties are so idiotic. Let's look at it this way.....How long would it take NARA to look at 33 million documents and ascertain whether they are classified, secret, etc. If they only spent 1 minute on each document it would take over a year but chances are it would take much longer. In the meantime Obama is holding unknown documents and no one is questioning him.
 
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Sure he did.
Obama took classified documents and got away with it for nearly 6 years?
If so, then i suppose he deserves to get away with it, since our national archives would be so incompetent to not notice.
Also, amazing coincidence we never hear about Obama doing this until after Trump is caught doing this.
 
He was never investigated, so there's no way to know what he took with him.
Yes, hard to believe NARA's claim that 33 million documents were all unclassified. The Obama Presidential Library has no physical location either. It's wholly virtual. Documents were never on paper. Yet no one questions the 'magic negro.'
 
Obama took classified documents and got away with it for nearly 6 years?
If so, then i suppose he deserves to get away with it, since our national archives would be so incompetent to not notice.
Also, amazing coincidence we never hear about Obama doing this until after Trump is caught doing this.
Yes, he got away with it because DOJ wasn't trying to prosecute him like they did Trump. There was much printed about Obama's virtual records at the time.
 
Yes, hard to believe NARA's claim that 33 million documents were all unclassified. The Obama Presidential Library has no physical location either. It's wholly virtual. Documents were never on paper. Yet no one questions the 'magic negro.'
That's because he's "clean and we'll spoken"...lol
 

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