This ‘lawyer’ does not know what she is talking about. The President has the authority to declassify any document.
Besides that…how many documents are only in hard copy format. Most would have still been on a hard drive
Did he do so before he left the White House? If he did, is there any proof he did?
Exactly.
The accuser?
Jill Wine-Banks. Lawyer. Hyphenated name. Watergate prosecutor. Divorced from Ian Volner. As former Illinois assistant AG assign a prosecutor to investigate a veterinarian because of her dog's death.
Bounced from job to job in an unstable career. Motorola. Maytag. Winning Workplaces, a human resources firm. Chicago Public Schools. Consultant with F & H Solutions. Commentary on MSNBC.
Lately?
She hosts two podcasts, SistersinLaw, along with Boston Globe columnist and former lawyer Kimberly Atkins and former U.S. Attorneys Barbara McQuade and Joyce Vance, and Intergenerational Politics, which will be produced by Politicon.
With a lineup like that, yeah, I can see her making up a load of BS and then totally believing it because... she said so.
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Information shall be declassified as soon as it no longer meets the standards for classification under this order. It is presumed that information that continues to meet the classification requirements under this order requires continued protection. In some exceptional cases, however, the need to protect such information may be outweighed by the public interest in disclosure of the information, and in these cases the information should be declassified. When such questions arise, they shall be referred to the agency head or the senior agency official. That official will determine, as an exercise of discretion, whether the public interest in disclosure outweighs the damage to the national security that might reasonably be expected from disclosure.
https://www.archives.gov/about/laws/appendix/12958.html
Former presidents aren’t subject to security clearance investigations. They are provided access to secrets as a courtesy, within a level determined and with the permission of the current president. So until they can prove that Trump had documents illegally, which is a real stretch if at all possible as he was cleared access to them, then they have no case. And not going public with a level of security without public access that they can’t know yet prosecute is a violation of his and his supporters’ rights. Especially when everything he took would have be scrutinized in this area.
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