" with not rules " what on earth does that mean.
Yes, if anyone can prove that he is only claiming to have declassified the documents and did not declassify them at the time, you will have a point.
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When this whole idea of Trump declassifying documents came up, I thought pretty much the same as a lot of Democrats on here. I thought, 'Wait, Trump can't just "declassify" something on a whim, right? Surely there is a process for that. Doesn't congress have a say in what is classified, either by passing laws, or by creating regulatory agencies?'
But then I researched it, which is the piece many of you are missing. I looked up Navy vs. Egan which ruled that the president has sole authority to determine what information is classified and what is not. I read the Executive Orders, but I understood that no president is bound by Executive Orders since they are just written versions of his own orders or his predecessors.
Then I learned about Obama's on the post decision to mentally declassy information that he wanted to pass on to Russia to help them plan attacks and his statement that:
“There’s classified, and then there’s classified. There’s stuff that is really top secret, top secret—and there’s stuff that … you might not want out on the transom … but is basically stuff that you could get in open source.”
Was he right?
Yes, by definition, what a president decides about classified information is right.
Guests Remind NBC, CNN: Obama Gave Classified Intel to Russia
Guests Remind NBC, CNN: Obama Gave Classified Intel to Russia
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President Obama turned a few heads on Fox News Sunday when host Chris Wallace asked him whether Hillary Clinton’s emails—some of which contained...slate.com
Yes, the agency that controls each document has a record of its classification
When this whole idea of Trump declassifying documents came up, I thought pretty much the same as a lot of Democrats on here. I thought, 'Wait, Trump can't just "declassify" something on a whim, right? Surely there is a process for that. Doesn't congress have a say in what is classified, either by passing laws, or by creating regulatory agencies?'
But then I researched it, which is the piece many of you are missing. I looked up Navy vs. Egan which ruled that the president has sole authority to determine what information is classified and what is not. I read the Executive Orders, but I understood that no president is bound by Executive Orders since they are just written versions of his own orders or his predecessors.
Then I learned about Obama's on the post decision to mentally declassy information that he wanted to pass on to Russia to help them plan attacks and his statement that:
“There’s classified, and then there’s classified. There’s stuff that is really top secret, top secret—and there’s stuff that … you might not want out on the transom … but is basically stuff that you could get in open source.”
Was he right?
Yes, by definition, what a president decides about classified information is right.
Guests Remind NBC, CNN: Obama Gave Classified Intel to Russia
Guests Remind NBC, CNN: Obama Gave Classified Intel to Russia
It’s No Secret That the Obama Administration Has Been Terrible on Transparency
President Obama turned a few heads on Fox News Sunday when host Chris Wallace asked him whether Hillary Clinton’s emails—some of which contained...
But plenty about the president being the sole authority over classified information.
Then Trump did it with the physical act of moving them to Mar-a-Lago..
Show me the process.
Why should anyone go through the effort to show you the process when you will just deny it anyway?
Then show me the process and you can crow I told you so when I deny it.
It's not my claim, it's the Supreme Court's claim in Navy v. Egan. Do you know of something you could link that supersedes that ruling?
So the rules were different for Obama.
