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On Trump's last day in office, why were sensitive documents allegedly in such disarray?
ABC News ^ | October 7, 2022, 6:07 AM | ByMike Levine and Katherine Faulders

Posted on 10/07/2022 5:40:17 AM PDT by deport

At the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, his team returned a large batch of classified FBI documents and other government records to the Justice Department in such disarray that a year later -- in a letter to lawmakers -- the department said it still couldn’t tell which of the documents were the classified ones.

The documents came from the FBI’s controversial probe in 2016 looking at alleged links between Russia and Trump's presidential campaign. Trump tried to make the documents public the night before he left office, issuing a “declassification” memo and secretly meeting with conservative writer John Solomon, who was allowed to review the documents, Solomon told ABC News this past week.

But for reasons that are still not clear – and to the great frustration of Trump and his political allies – none of the documents were ever officially released, and the Justice Department said Thursday it's still working to determine which documents can be disclosed.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Society
KEYWORDS: declassified; documents; russiahoax; trump
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1 posted on 10/07/2022 5:40:17 AM PDT by deport
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To: deport

They couldn’t tell which were classified?? That makes absolutely no sense.


2 posted on 10/07/2022 5:43:21 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: deport

If they can’t tell which are classified then, how can they now turn around and say that they knew which ones are classified? Notice how they are now admitting that the FBI is trying to grab back the Russiagate, Crossfire Hurricane, and FISA warrants. This isn’t a matter of National Security this is their attempt to Cover Their Own Asses, by preventing 0bama, Biden, Clinton, Comey, and others from being exposed as plotters of a coup.


3 posted on 10/07/2022 5:51:36 AM PDT by euram
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To: deport

What Laptop??


4 posted on 10/07/2022 5:54:06 AM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: euram

ditto


5 posted on 10/07/2022 5:56:17 AM PDT by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: deport

Messy files! Oh no! Is that a felony?


6 posted on 10/07/2022 5:56:18 AM PDT by maro (MAGA!)
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To: deport

Dear Mike and Kathy,

I would sure like to read the articles you have written about the current administration’s failings. Biden corruption. Afghanistan surrender. Pelosi stock profits. Hunter investments in China bio-labs. You know, real stuff happening today.

Your buddy,
KC Burke.


7 posted on 10/07/2022 5:57:11 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: deport

Boy, ABC is really scraping the very bottom of the barrel.

The whole Brandon administration is a complete train wreck, but Trump’s “ documents were in disarray “.

The lamestream media clown show continues.


8 posted on 10/07/2022 5:59:00 AM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: deport

Pretty sure that classified stuff is marked with its classification on every page. And often every paragraph. If you have a document and cannot tell if its classified, then it’s pretty safe to say its not classified.


9 posted on 10/07/2022 6:05:39 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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To: deport; All

The real question is in year 2 of the Biden administration why aren’t you writing stories on how successful he’s been and how the country is in a much better place than on Trump’s last day in office?


10 posted on 10/07/2022 6:06:29 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me,)
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To: wiseprince

People are much more interested in Bad Trump stories than they are their obliterated personal wealth and disappearing liberties.


11 posted on 10/07/2022 6:08:21 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: deport
FBI’s controversial probe in 2016 looking at alleged links between Russia and Trump's presidential campaign.

They all know the truth about the fake Russia set up but they still can not accurately report the facts.

12 posted on 10/07/2022 6:14:18 AM PDT by New Perspective (As Leonard Cohen said once in an interview, “You won’t like what comes after America”)
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To: deport
The documents came from the FBI’s controversial probe in 2016 looking at alleged links between Russia and Trump's presidential campaign.

↑This↑

This is what this is all about.

There was NO link between Russia and Trump and these bastards knew that but used it top spy.

They spied on the Republican Presidential candidate, the President-Elect and the President when he took the oath on Jan 20th.

Everyone of them ought to be in jail--starting with the spyer-in-chief, Obama.

13 posted on 10/07/2022 6:15:37 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: deport

Well, in a big way, Mr. Trump had little expectation going into the election he would be leaving.


14 posted on 10/07/2022 6:16:02 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: deport
"since-discredited claims about supposed Obama-era corruption in Ukraine."

Stopped reading, right there.

15 posted on 10/07/2022 6:21:42 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: deport

Leftists never let up, because their only enjoyment in life is to create disruption & disharmony. After all, everyone must feel like they feel. They will never try to improve themselves in order for them to feel like others feel.


16 posted on 10/07/2022 6:21:48 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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“They couldn’t tell which were classified?? That makes absolutely no sense.”
How was Trump supposed to know they were classified but the DOJ still can’t figure out what is classified? And the DOJ has leaked information about the documents, for example lists of how many were supposedly classified, and what the subject matter was. If they had let Trump keep the documents these leaks would not have occurred. So how can they claim to be “protecting” the classified information? They leaked a PHOTOGRAPH of a bunch of classified documents arranged on the floor! how is this keeping them secret??


17 posted on 10/07/2022 6:21:56 AM PDT by brookwood (Government discriminates against you, and if you complain, calls you a racist.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

What they are trying to portray is that Unclassified was mixed with Secret, and then with Top Secret material....and that mortal human beings can’t handle this mixture.

I spent twenty years of my military career easily handling the filing of all three levels, and after a decent amount of training...it’s not rocket science. But if you start off and just say SCIFs aren’t in the mix, and uncleared people are routinely around all levels of classified, then you are creating massive chaos.


18 posted on 10/07/2022 6:27:18 AM PDT by pepsionice
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“Pretty sure that classified stuff is marked with its classification on every page.”

Every document that is classified and then declassified would still possess those classification markings. They do not suddenly disappear from the document when the p[resident, or whoever declassifies them.

Glad to see not only did Trump formally declassify these, he let the media see them.

So we learn Trump has witnesses.


19 posted on 10/07/2022 6:27:54 AM PDT by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: deport

Disarray. Right. He was an extreme success for several decades by being sloppy and not paying attention to detail.


20 posted on 10/07/2022 6:28:44 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It amazes me how much "exercise" and "extra fries" sound alike.)
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