Posted on 04/12/2023 11:02:18 AM PDT by Red Badger
America First Legal (“AFL”) filed a FOIA request with the Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) for the National Archives and Records Administration (“NARA”) to find out more information about the raid on Mar-a-Lago last year. Rather unexpectedly, the OIG responded honestly to the request, turning over records that revealed the White House helping to set up the FBI for the raid.
As a preliminary matter, Trump had an absolute right to possess any records he wanted, if he gained possession of them (as he did) while he was still president. It is black-letter law (that is, unquestioned, uncontested, absolute law) in America that the President of the United States is the last, best word when it comes to document classification:
In Navy v. Egan, 484 U.S. 518 (1988), the court examined whether a civil service board can review a “laborer's” being denied national security clearance. In that context, the Supreme Court was clear about the president's plenary power, unimpeded by congressional acts:
The President, after all, is the “Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States.” U.S.Const., Art. II, § 2. His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security and to determine whether an individual is sufficiently trustworthy to occupy a position in the Executive Branch that will give that person access to such information flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant. See Cafeteria Workers v. McElroy, 367 U. S. 886, 367 U. S. 890 (1961).
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Cue the crickets in 3,....2,.....
Gutless and spineless Republicans will give this a pass.
Meanwhile at the super secret underground lair HQ of the DOH-j....😴😴😴😴😴😴😴
There's absolutely no way that a former president's home is raided by the feds without the sitting president knowing about it, it's not gonna happen. Even with a vegetable like Biden at the helm that would NOT happen.
I always assumed that was the case.
bkmk
Actually it’s more likely since we have a vegetable acting like President is why this could happen. He allows the deep state to do whatever they want. That’s precisely why they put him in power.
There’s ALWAYS more filthy surprises lurking under these highly political cases.
The only questions are - how quickly they are found out, the time elapsed, and what is done about them (which is usually nothing)
Just one question: Where the blazes are “Team Mitch and Kevin?”
outstanding...
DJT will surely be indicted on this.It’s all about November 2024.
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