Why do you think that only classified documents should not be taken from the White House?
Is it not possible, that by taking documents from the White House instead of properly archiving them then the government is potentially left in a position where they cannot fully/properly fulfill FOIA request or produce subpoenaed items?
What if the documents are simply needed internally and should have been sent to the Archives?
Why do you think Trump has the legal right to just walk off with boxes of documents after his job is over?
1. It is obvious no President should be able to take classified documents with them when they leave office.
2. When Trump left he left as PRESIDENT, someone with the authority to declassify documents. Biden left as a VICE Presidrnt, having NO authority to declassify anything.
3. When Trump left and took documents it was for a very short time, and there was a Chain of Custody established through the Secret Service.
With Biden, he divided up his documents, sent them to numerous locations - all of which we don't even know, moved them numerous times, and there was never any Chain of Custody AND no visitor logs kept on the UNSECURE locations where Biden kept his classified documents.
THAT means we don't know who had access to the TS/SCI documents during the year beletween the time Biden left the WH & classified Was moved into the Penn-Biden-ChiCom center a year later. (Where were the TS/SCI documrnts during that year, and who had access to them?)
THAT means we don't know who had access to the TS/SCI documents while they sat in the closet if Biden's private office in the Penn-Biden-ChiCom center for the last 5 years!
THAT means we have no clue who had access to the TS/SCI documents sitting in Biden's garage next to his corvette or in the 3rd location, in his house for the last 5 years.
THAT means we have no clue who has had access to the remaining classified documents his aides and DOJ are still looking for.
We went through this before with Hillary's crimes and again with Trump's classified issue, but it is evident we need to go over it again:
TS/SCI - TOP SECRET COMPARTMENTALIZED INFORMATION - is the HIGHEST classification level for classified information in the US. It is for information that has the highest classification sensitivity there is, information that could do grave damage to the US if released.
This information can ONLY be held, viewed, and discussed in designated, cleared, 'vaults' known as SCIFs, Special Compartmentalized Information Facilities.
The information can NOT be TAKEN OUT of these facilities. This information can NOT be DISCUSSED outside of these facilities.
People given access to this information are 'read-into' specific compartmentalized info / programs - being read-into a SCI program does not give you access to ALL SCI prohrams / info.
When you are read-into the SCI program you are briefed on all strict security laws/regs/etc... governing this classification of data. You must sign a document saying you understand everything you were briefed and agree to it.
When you no longer have a need to have access - as in leaving and no longer being Sect of State, Vice Pres, etc... - you are read-out of the TS/SCI program.
At that time you are debriefed, informed from that point on you can no longer have access to any of the TS/SCI info, you can not possess any TS/SCI info, you can never legally speak about the TS/SCI info you had access to, can not use any of the info in memoirs, books you plan to write, etc...
Again, after being debriefed all of this
you are required to sign a document stating you understand all of that and that you agree to comply with all of it.
1. This is why Comey's defense of Hillary Clinton, declaring she was 'too stupid to know she was breaking laws' to justify not indicting her for having TS/SCI info, was such BULLSHIT! When Hillary left the Sect of State job she was read-out of the SCI program, fully debriefed, and she signed the document stating she understood all of it and that she was legally bound to comply. SHE KNEW EXACTLY WHAT SHE WAS DOING.
2. Part of Joe Biden's defense, besides being a brain-dead idiot, is '
INADVERTENT taking of TS/SCI Classified documents'. There is
NO SUCH THING! As was the case with Hillary, Biden was read-out of the SCI program, fully debriefed, and signed the same document Hillary did. BIDEN ALSO KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING WHEN HE TOOK THESE TS/SCI DOCUMENTS CONTAINING CLEAR 'TS/SCI' MARKINGS!
3. Trump's case is slighly more (or less) complicated since, unlike the other 2, he was / is a former President, giving him the authority to declassify documents.
-- The on-going investigation will tell if he did or not do so. Trump reportedy ordered the FBI to declassify all Crossfire Hurricane documents, which they did not / refused to do. Some say this is false. If this is false, why have the courts allowed FOIA lawsuits SEEKING Crossfire Hurricane info against the FBI go forward (which the FBI still refuses to comply with)? FOIA requests can only be filed against / for unclassified / declassified information. That means the Crossfire Hurricane docs had to be declassified OR the FOIA requests were filed based on Trump's order to the FBI to declassify them....but this is for another thread topic.
Biden is completely LEGALLY (not partisanly) screwed for taking TS/SCI documenys illegally, for illegally transporting them, and for illegally storing them in an UNSECURED NON-SCIF, for having no clue where all the documents were / are for 6 years, and having no Chain of Custody to be able to tell who had access to some of the nation's highest sensitive classified information.
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