Posted on 08/18/2022 11:24:45 AM PDT by FryingPan101
When it comes to the National Archives, history has a funny way of repeating itself. And legal experts say a decade-old case over audio tapes that Bill Clinton once kept in his sock drawer may have significant impact over the FBI search of Melania Trump's closet and Donald Trump's personal office.
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Ooooops sorry. I couldn’t find it.
No prob, deserves re-post IMHO.
Her new opinion will be the exact opposite of her Clinton opinion.
FTA——The case in question is titled Judicial Watch v. National Archives and Records Administration and it involved an effort by the conservative watchdog to compel the Archives to forcibly seize hours of audio recordings that Clinton made during his presidency with historian Taylor Branch.
For pop culture, the case is most memorable for the revelation that the 42nd president for a time stored the audio tapes in his sock drawer at the White House.
The tapes became the focal point of a 2009 book that Branch wrote.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington D.C. ultimately rejected Judicial Watch’s suit by concluding there was no provision in the Presidential Records Act to force the National Archives to seize records from a former president.
But Jackson’s ruling — along with the Justice Department’s arguments that preceded it — made some other sweeping declarations that have more direct relevance to the FBI’s decision to seize handwritten notes and files Trump took with him to Mar-a-Lago.
The most relevant is that a president’s discretion on what are personal vs. official records is far-reaching and solely his, as is his ability to declassify or destroy records at will.
Bill Clinton gets a free pass because he was for abortion. Trump is given the Stasi treatment because he is pro life.
that’s why he had to donate his underwear.. to make room for the tapes.
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Not that democrat thugs are biased and lack any integrity... (I'm sure you're right... same with the biased FBI thugs and the bimbos and pretentious 'men' of the DOJ)
Not that democrat thugs are biased and lack any integrity... (I'm sure you're right... same with the biased FBI thugs and the bimbos and pretentious 'men' of the DOJ) They don't have to think or weigh scales beyond "is it a "D" or an "R" beside the person's name." American fascism is here and it's smelling up our corrupt institutions.
What I got out of this is:
1. No possible crime even exists. It’s a civil statue.
2. These are Trumps files to do with what he wants
3. Nothing could be classified
4. The Feebs knew 1-3 and broke the law anyway.
Exactly. That’s how I always understood it. Otherwise, who knows what any of the former presidents took with them? No one ever questioned legal or illegal until Trump.
Waiting! Waiting! Waiting!.......
Did the insane, desperate Democrats/RINOs throw the highly successful & highly popular President Trump in jail for 30+ years on “espionage” charges yet? Just asking for a friend.
I find it hard to believe the Magistrate di not know about this Precedent already, It is his JOB to know this stuff. Which brings me to the conclusion that the magistrate and everyone else involved in this sham warrant willfully and knowingly committed FRAUD and should all be locked up for life.
Bkmk bubba Clinton
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