no, wholly predictable...
Posted on 06/19/2017 4:50:08 PM PDT by GregNH
(Washington, DC) – 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” have been removed 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 judicialwatch.org ...
The unmasking is coded in the PDBs.
Anything with the word ‘act’ in it usually means Act of Congress.
“Chaffetz has a point...why in the world does the head of the IRS still have his job?”
Chaffetz is a corrupt and compromised pimple-d!ck neverTrumper member of the swamp. He has no point.
This is one man against a totally, irrepararbly corrupt fed govt. A 4 trillion dollar stasi state that can drop the hammer on Trump in a million different ways anytime they want.
It’s a mexican standoff.
Trump and Sessions seem neutered as it relates to going after people. Maybe deep state threatened families
I wish it were. I've seen racism up front and personal, and grew up in a major city environment in a mixed neighborhood that I believe gave me a much more real and accurate perspective than those ‘elites’ who only know what they've ‘learned’ from classes and campus activism. Racism is ugly, and like reversible chemical reactions the arrow of racism can point in different directions depending upon conditions. That said, I find it extremely offensive that privileged people like Obama and Rice use the tragedy of racism, that they've never been personally hurt by and which they don't really understand, to push their own agenda and elevate themselves.
A possible obstacle is the Act provides for the Archivist and the former President to jointly decide what is a private presidential record that can be freely destroyed and what is a public presidential record that must be made available. The current National Archivist was appointed by Obama.
Have they sent Susan Rice over there too???
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TALKING POINTS: As the new president, Obama took a couple of steps to ease and speed the overall process for the release of presidential records.
<><> On his first day in office, Obama rolled back a Bush executive order that historians complained gave the families of deceased presidents too much power to withhold presidential records. (A judge had blocked part of that order in 2007.)
<><> And in 2014, Obama signed a law that capped the amount of time historical presidential records can remain under pre-release review by the White House Counsel's Office. That measure has dramatically reduced delays in disclosure of presidential records, which sometimes spent a year or more awaiting final White House clearance to be revealed to the public.
UPDATE (Sunday, 9:50 a.m): This post has been updated with comment from the White House.
SOURCE Josh Gerstein, senior reporter, POLITICO, 1/8/17.
Are you saying the Obama Library doesn’t exist at this current time? They can have records there if there is no physical place to store them. Maybe they have a computer in the bathroom , like Hillary.
If I read the statute correctly, ANY of these records can be subpoenaed. §2205 of the presidential records act:
2205. Exceptions to restricted access
Notwithstanding any restrictions on access imposed pursuant to sections 2204 and 2208—
(1) the Archivist and persons employed by the National Archives and Records Administration who are engaged in the performance of normal archival work shall be permitted access to Presidential records in the custody of the Archivist;
(2) subject to any rights, defenses, or privileges which the United States or any agency or person may invoke, Presidential records shall be made available—
(A) pursuant to subpoena or other judicial process issued by a court of competent jurisdiction for the purposes of any civil or criminal investigation or proceeding;
(B) to an incumbent President if such records contain information that is needed for the conduct of current business of the incumbent President’s office and that is not otherwise available; and
(C) to either House of Congress, or, to the extent of matter within its jurisdiction, to any committee or subcommittee thereof if such records contain information that is needed for the conduct of its business and that is not otherwise available; and
(3) the Presidential records of a former President shall be available to such former President or the former President’s designated representative.
Unreal.
Don’t give a damn who’s library it’s in; just SUBPOENA the documents, they belong to the American People not to a specific person whether they are in a library or not.
The American People have the legal right to know what’s in them baring REAL NATIONAL SECURITY RISKS.
What I want to see cannot be considered private.
Pertaining to subpoena, court order, Congressional committee, needs of the incumbent President see the following—Excerpt of Presidential Records (44 U.S.C. Chapter 22):
§ 2205. Exceptions to restricted access
Notwithstanding any restrictions on access imposed pursuant to sections 2204 and 2208—
(1) the Archivist and persons employed by the National Archives and Records Administration who are engaged in the performance of normal archival work shall be permitted access to Presidential records in the custody of the Archivist;
(2) subject to any rights, defenses, or privileges which the United States or any agency or person may invoke, Presidential records shall be made available—
(A) pursuant to subpoena or other judicial process issued by a court of competent jurisdiction for the purposes of any civil or criminal investigation or proceeding;
(B) to an incumbent President if such records contain information that is needed for the conduct of current business of the incumbent President’s office and that is not otherwise available; and
(C) to either House of Congress, or, to the extent of matter within its jurisdiction, to any committee or subcommittee thereof if such records contain information that is needed for the conduct of its business and that is not otherwise available; and
(3) the Presidential records of a former President shall be available to such former President or the former President’s designated representative.
no, wholly predictable...
Weren’t the Previous Occupant’s records purely digital copies for the “Library?”
T-R-E-A-S-O-N!
Obama’s lie-brary has probably been running their industrial shredders full time since November.
“For now, the voluminous documents, artifacts and gifts amassed over Obama’s eight years in office are being housed and processed in an old warehouse of Plunkett Home Furnishings in Hoffman Estates.”
Subject to fire damage?
It can’t be obstruction. Dems don’t do obstruction.
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