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To: Reily

Three problems with your theory

1) the president can choose what is or isn’t “classified”

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/may/16/james-risch/does-president-have-ability-declassify-anything-an/

The majority ruling in the 1988 Supreme Court case Department of Navy vs. Egan — which addressed the legal recourse of a Navy employee who had been denied a security clearance — addresses this line of authority.

“The President, after all, is the ‘Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States’” according to Article II of the Constitution, the court’s majority wrote. “His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security ... flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant.”

2) if the information is real q is real

3) everything q has directed us to we have found through public information


800 posted on 04/07/2018 12:51:58 PM PDT by edzo4 (Thank Q very much!!!)
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To: edzo4

So now you’re telling me Trump is behaving like Zero or Hillary. Doesn’t care if enemies etc. have this information too! This is not a secure site. If there is even a ghost of a chance that Q is Trump or speaks for Trump its being collected by our adversaries. Heck they could be FR members! (They could be Q!) Which means Trump is giving away the store! Do you really think he is that irresponsible? I don’t!

You’re welcome to think that if you want.

Anyway I’m done, continue to enjoy the Lotus leaves. I am sure Q-ball is laughing his butt off!


818 posted on 04/07/2018 1:05:42 PM PDT by Reily
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To: edzo4
the president can choose what is or isn’t “classified”

exactly. Folks don't get this. Information is classified not by some sort of magic incantation, but because someone with classification authority (head of an agency, military commander) made a judgment that release of the information would damage national security to some degree. Without such a determination nothing is classified. The heads of agencies are the ultimate classification authorities and ultimate grantors of access to that information. The President is boss of all of them.

Example, you investigate and discover that someone was poisoned with military grade never agent. Because of the sensitivity of the information involved you classify the info top secret. The political leadership comes along and makes a deterimination to make the information public because the public knowing that someone was so poisoned is much more supportive of national security than keeping the fact that you know that someone else knows that you know what kind of poisons a foreign power has weaponized.

There was no release of classified information. By its release by someone with the power to determine its classification, it was de facto declassified.

A judge determines that an ambulance driver doing 90MPH on a lark was driving recklessly. Same Judge could also determine that the same ambulence driver was instead responding to a medical emergency and had could cause to exceed the civil speed limit. These things are always a judgement by someone who has the discretion to adjudge them.

850 posted on 04/07/2018 1:27:20 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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