jimboston wrote:… oh and yeah… you know what. they did find a lot of documents that shouldn’t have been in his possession.
Imagine that.
Green true. Red false.
The MSM, who have become mere scribes of the Secret Police who dutifully publish its leaks verbatim to keep their access flowing, would have people believe that the President needs to get permission from his own civil servants to declassify something. Nothing is further from the truth. All classification authority flows from the body of the President. This somewhat common sense position is affirmed in the 1988 Supreme Court case Department of Navy vs. Egan. [https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/484/518/] Scholars agree Trump had total declassification authority of anything and everything up until 12 p.m. on January 21, 2021.
- Ashley Deeks, a law professor at the University of Virginia who until recently was deputy legal adviser to the National Security Council, said the laws and practices regarding classified information place a president in a somewhat unique position.
“Because the president himself is the ultimate classifying authority, it makes sense that agencies do not formally read presidents in to classified programs,” Deeks said. “In terms of former presidents, Congress itself has recognized in statute that former presidents would still have access to at least some of their records, though Congress also has made clear that former presidents do not own those records personally.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... ied-legal/
The reason there was a sudden rush by the FBI to grab the documents is because Trump had threatened to publish them three weeks prior.
https://www.justsecurity.org/82723/trum ... documents/
One FBI staffer -- Kevin Clinesmith -- has already been convicted of falsifying evidence in regard to the Russiagate hoax. That's an absolute and undisputable fact. They're trying to save their bacon.