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Rush Limbaugh: Democrats “Recoiling in Fear” That Trump Will Unleash Damning Classified Documents

What is Trump waiting for? This should have been done already - and I also believe Assange and Snowden should be pardoned. I no longer automatically believe that allowing our intelligence agencies to keep so many secrets from us helps the US - based on past evidence, it simply allows the Deep State to function against the interests of the American people.
19 posted on 01/09/2021 10:55:44 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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I think Trump has issued mutiple orders solemnly instructing agency heads in the past to declassify documents and release them to the public.

Had the agency heads adhered to his orders at that time, much deep state misbehavior among career governnment employees would have been made known by now

Take a guess what happened.

IIRC the agency heads, rather than faithfully carry out the new mandate, instead retreated into a hazy cloud of regulatory murk. Most likely, they sought and obtained contrary opinions from Trump-hating agency lawyers (i.e., in-house government lawyers) who were perfectly willing to start with the legal conclusion the corrupt agency head wished to receive (namely: The agency should refrain from declassifying) and work backwards from there. In that way, the corrupt agency heads obtained cover for doing next to nothing in response to the executive orders in question.


51 posted on 01/09/2021 11:37:24 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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