They just had a guy on Fox who was involved in the Watergate investigation who said VPs cannot declassify documents. Granted I only had one ear on the TV and did not get all the details.
A POTUS can delegate this authority.
The fact that the press don't say a word about this when it's a Democrat in question who took the documents when he was veep tells you all you need to know.
https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2006/02/the_vice_presidents_declassifi/
Obama has not said one thing about this document scandal, has done nothing to defend Joe or anything to help him. That says a lot right there.
The documents were vetted so that makes it OK. 😂😂😂
[March 25, 2003]
EXECUTIVE ORDER 13292
FURTHER AMENDMENT TO EXECUTIVE ORDER 12958, AS AMENDED,
CLASSIFIED NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION
GW Bush
https://sgp.fas.org/bush/eoamend.html
==
[December 29, 2009]
Executive Order 13526- Classified National Security Information
BObama
moot point since he hasn’t made that claim... he still claims no knowledge of ANYTHING!!!
tooo late to try that crap now
A VP can ONLY declassify materials that he himself PERSONALLY classified earlier. Not anything else!
The answer is no
Honestly, who cares? I didn’t care that Trump had docs, so I can’t and don’t care that Biden had docs. This means they can’t prosecute Trump, that’s the only reason I have any interest in the story
Other than that, it’s a distraction and Freepers shouldn’t take the bait. The real story they want us to ignore is Biden leading an invasion of the southern border. That’s treason.
No..and besides that. He retained documents while he was senator.
The VP can look at them at the specific authorized secure place, but he CAN NOT possess them or remove them to a place of his choosing.
Then comes the issue of while he was in the senate.
Been saying this since he announced for the office, the mother effer is THEE mob boss in DC.
Now remember....Biden can reclassify EVERY Document that has ever been declassified.
This is entirely a moot point and a strawman put out by the media to protect Biden. Even if Biden had the authority to declassify, which he probably didn’t unless he was the original classifier, the documents they are finding have not been declassified. I have read nowhere that says they were declasssified. Biden just had classified documents, including ones from when he was in the Senate, and as a senator, he had zero classification authority. Again, this is a strawman/flase flag put out by by the corrupt, leftist media.
Bush43 started it with an EO giving Cheney the ability to classify and declassify material.
Obama renewed that EO.
But this ability only allows the VP to declassify what the VP has classified. The VP cannot declassify something that the POTUS has classified.
No
Having the “authority” is one thing, “getting away with it” is another.
How about them finding out Biden has possession of classified document when he was a Senator.
Snopes - Do Vice Presidents Not Have Authority To Declassify Documents?
1/18/2023, 10:42:18 AM · by Libloather · 39 replies Snopes ^ | 1/16/23 | Nur Ibrahim
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