Posted on 08/16/2022 1:00:03 PM PDT by Red Badger
The FBI has revealed that it was searching. for boxes of classified information from Donald Trump’s presidency during its raid of Mar-a-Lago. Trump now faces accusations of violating the Presidential Records Act, a law that was enacted in 1978 after former President Richard Nixon tried to claim his secret Oval Office tapes and other records were his ‘personal property.’
The law states that “the United States shall reserve and retain complete ownership, possession, and control of Presidential records.”
David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, said, “The Presidential Records Act is critical to our democracy, in which the government is held accountable by the people.”
However, while the Left is making it seem like this law is held sacred by our country’s leaders, presidential records are mostly kept hidden from the public for decades after the president leaves office.
The Nixon Library did not release all his secret tapes until 2013 – 39 years after Nixon left office. Similarly, the Lyndon B. Johnson Library delayed the release of his secret tapes until 2016, which was 47 years after he left office.
The Obama administration didn’t do things any differently, delaying the release of thousands of pages of records from Bill Clinton’s presidency. Barack Obama also had 30 million pages of records from his administration transported to Chicago, where he promised he would digitize them and put them online.
The Obama Foundation estimates that 95% of Obama administration records were “born digital,” meaning they could very easily be released online. And, in 2017, the Obama Foundation announced it would fund the digitization of the records that were not already digital. However, over five years after his presidency ended, the National Archives webpage shows that no pages have been digitized or disclosed yet.
The National Archives Museum
While Americans are mostly prohibited from seeing official records from Obama’s presidency, Barack and Michelle Obama were advanced $65 million for their memoirs.
In 2011, Obama’s Justice Department proposed that federal agencies should be able to falsely claim that FOIA-requested documents didn’t exist. This recommendation was criticized as a law that would “permit federal law enforcement agencies to actively lie to the American people.”
So, while Obama touted his administration as “the most transparent” in history, it was really no more open than the Nixon administration in terms of government secrecy.
People are able to file requests under the Freedom of Information Act, but even getting a response from presidential libraries can take years, or more than a decade if the information is classified.
Donald Trump addressed this double standard on August 12, saying, “President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified. How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word is, lots!”
Trump also asked whether federal agents would be “breaking into Obama’s ‘mansion’ in Martha’s Vineyard.”
However, The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), responded to Trump’s statements, saying that “former President Obama has no control over where and how NARA stores the presidential records of his administration,” and that NARA has “assumed exclusive legal and physical custody of Obama presidential records when President Barack Obama left office in 2017.”
The Justice Department has yet to reveal what documents it confiscated at Mar-a-Lago and what, if any, legal charges may be filed.
NSC Won’t Fulfill Subpoena Request For Susan Rice Unmasking Documents –
The Records Were Moved to Obama Library
Gateway Pundit ^ | 06/19/2017 | Cristina Laila
Posted on 8/13/2022, 12:08:26 PM by AnthonySoprano
Judicial Watch today announced that the National Security Council (NSC) on May 23, 2017, informed it by letter that the materials regarding the unmasking by Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice of “the identities of any U.S. citizens associated with the Trump presidential campaign or transition team” were removed government possession.
The documents were moved to the Obama Library.
The NSC will not fulfill an April 4 Judicial Watch request for records regarding information relating to people “who were identified pursuant to intelligence collection activities.”
The agency also informed Judicial Watch that it would not turn over communications with any Intelligence Community member or agency concerning the alleged Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election; the hacking of DNC computers; or the suspected communications between Russia and Trump campaign/transition officials. Specifically, the NSC told Judicial Watch:
Documents from the Obama administration have been transferred to the Barack Obama Presidential Library. You may send your request to the Obama Library. However, you should be aware that under the Presidential Records Act, Presidential records remain closed to the public for five years after an administration has left office.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Obama has received nothing but good will from America and no one in America deserves it less.
I hope his end is a horrid one.
har.
not surprised to find you here.
after seeing the headline I was gonna pingify you on this piece
Yeah.....I been posting that everywhere.
“He/she/they did it too” isn’t a valid legal defense. If I’m pulled over for speeding it doesn’t matter how many people zoom by while the officer is talking to me. The issue is whether I exceeded the speed limit or not.
Trump’s best bet at this point is to release the documentation showing that he followed proper procedure in declassifying the documents and/or that the documents were not actually the property of the National Archives. If the FBI planted anything the CCTV cameras at Mar-a-Lago will show that.
NSC Won’t Fulfill Subpoena Request For Susan Rice Unmasking Documents – The Records Were Moved to Obama Library
By Cristina Laila
Published June 19, 2017 at 4:27pm
I read the 2018 letter from the Obama Foundation to NARA yesterday while researching David Ferriero (an apparent Democrat). The letter promised they’d have the records digitized no later than August 31, 2021. If it still hasn’t been accomplished, why didn’t Ferriero go after him for theft?
It could be if it is part of a jury nullification strategy. Selective prosecution is offensive to justice-loving citizens who could just tell the prosecution to "go to hell" by returning a not guilty verdict.
Duh! If course it’s not a legal justification, but it IS a political one. Since this is a political witch hunt, pointing out the hypocrisy & double standard is vitally important in the court of public opinion. If this does go to trial, however, there’s such a thing as precedence, which is extremely important to the courts.
where are the pages about U1?
That means the Obama Foundation still is in possession of the undigitized documents, which is 5% of the records amassed during his 8-year administration. There’s no oversight over those records, which could include classified material. The Obama Foundation has had ample time to process them and is now past the promised due date. Why hasn’t NARA informed the DOJ and/or raided that warehouse? 🤬
bkmk
Yeah.....why?
Bammy hasn’t released them as that’d involve work.
bump to the top
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