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New twist in FBI raid: Trump had 'standing order' to declassify documents taken to residence
justthenews.com ^
| 8/13/2022
| john solomon
Posted on 08/13/2022 4:54:11 AM PDT by bitt
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posted on
08/13/2022 4:54:11 AM PDT
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bitt
To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...
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08/13/2022 4:54:23 AM PDT
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bitt
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To: bitt
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08/13/2022 4:56:51 AM PDT
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bitt
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To: bitt
Assuming that POTUS does,in fact,have the Constitutional authority to declassify anything and everything then there's no issue here. And to confirm that he does have this authority I'd rely on the word of Jonathan Turley or Alan Dershowitz....not any Maoist hack on MSLSD.
To: bitt
This will be a court battle.
Trump claims he issued a broad declassification for any document that left the White House.
The swamp claims Trump’s declassification is too broad and did not apply.
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posted on
08/13/2022 5:04:21 AM PDT
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Erik Latranyi
(We are being manipulated by forces that most do not see)
To: Gay State Conservative
I can personally attest that I was given access to classified material beyond my clearance while active duty. Surprisingly, all I had to do was sign a non-disclosure DA form of some kind. Seriously. True story.
If a brigade level security major can do that, then I’m fairly certain a president can, too.
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posted on
08/13/2022 5:06:52 AM PDT
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xzins
(Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
To: Gay State Conservative
So it applies to the vice president also. Mike Pence you better take the knife off your mantle.
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posted on
08/13/2022 5:07:06 AM PDT
by
magua
(It's not racism, it's just that thisBecause it’s being reported that a lot of this started in 2015.)
To: magua
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posted on
08/13/2022 6:19:23 AM PDT
by
Guenevere
(“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
To: xzins
Thank you for your service.
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posted on
08/13/2022 6:24:58 AM PDT
by
Churchillspirit
(Pray for President Trump)
To: xzins
So was I....I only realized it after the fact and it appears that nobody else did.It just landed on my desk one day. My unit was SNAFU all the way but the nation's security wasn't compromised (the Russians only offered me $20 for it).
To: bitt
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posted on
08/13/2022 6:41:25 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
To: bitt
I’m not actually buying the idea that any former president can just make a blanket statement like that which will cover classified documents after he has left office. Taking paperwork from one part of the White House to another part of the White House is one thing, it never leaves the building. Taking it out of the building after POTUS has left office seems out of bounds because he no longer has the nations secrets as part of his job. He doesn’t even have security clearance as the 2024 GOP nominee because that hasn’t happened yet.
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posted on
08/13/2022 6:51:30 AM PDT
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BlackAdderess
(Representatives are supposed to represent their constituents, that is their job. )
To: BlackAdderess
If the material was already declassified under the usual operating procedures of the Trump White House, it doesn’t magically become reclassified to his eyes. Residence doesn’t necessarily mean just the White House residence but likely Mar a lago, even Trump Tower. We seem to be talking about documents GSA boxed up for Trump when he left the White House. We’ve already had subpoenaed documents and at least one search. This isn’t about concern for secrets. This is about attacking Trump and 2024.
Even Sandy Berger was only guilty of a misdemeanor and got probation for stuffing classified documents in his socks and stealing them from the national archives. He was never a President with inherent unilateral authority over classification.
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posted on
08/13/2022 7:38:19 AM PDT
by
newzjunkey
(“We Did It Joe!” -The Taliban / “Thanks Joe!” -Putin)
To: BlackAdderess
BS. I have worked with Classified material for many years and the President has the ultimate authority for de-classifying Classified material. This is nothing but a fishing expedition to grab all of Trump’s Presidential documents in order to find a process crime. This is an authoritarian state going after its enemy by any means necessary.
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posted on
08/13/2022 7:49:35 AM PDT
by
ohioman
To: Gay State Conservative
I suspect it’s a daily occurrence. Lol.
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08/13/2022 7:52:35 AM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
To: ohioman
I think the POTUS has a compelling need to save valuable time while in office by streamlining what he can and can’t move around to get the job done, but that compelling need ceases as soon as he’s out of office. We’ll see how this goes, but I’m thinking the needs of the nation to keep its secrets outweigh the desire of the ex-president to hang onto stuff he isn’t involved in anymore.
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08/13/2022 8:05:37 AM PDT
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BlackAdderess
(Representatives are supposed to represent their constituents, that is their job. )
To: BlackAdderess
He is totally allowed to have these documents just the same as every other President. If you cannot see that this is nothing but a corrupt witch hunt then you are playing for the other side.
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08/13/2022 8:52:53 AM PDT
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ohioman
To: Gay State Conservative
Assuming that POTUS does,in fact,have the Constitutional authority to declassify anything and everything then there's no issue here.I haven't dug in and read the statues they're using but my understanding is they don't rely on the documents being classified. It has to do with misuse of sensitive national security information.
I imagine DOJ knows enough to stay away from the "can he declasify it?" argument.
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08/13/2022 8:59:57 AM PDT
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semimojo
To: ohioman
I’m mushy middle, I’m no fan of CRT and the great proliferation of social rules bogging us down, but I also think that Trump got played by Leonard Leo and that he is a human being who could do worse than to retire as elder statesman after having single-handedly broken up our elites zombie trade policy that aided the rise if China far quicker than would have otherwise happened. If he kept documents that are still of strategic interest, he shouldn’t have.
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08/13/2022 9:06:10 AM PDT
by
BlackAdderess
(Representatives are supposed to represent their constituents, that is their job. )
To: bitt
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08/13/2022 9:30:31 AM PDT
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GailA
(Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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