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Posted on 02/20/2022 3:56:34 PM PST by lowbridge
Attorney and former U.S. Army prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said that former President Donald Trump is potentially facing a "five-year felony" over allegations that he took classified national security documents from the White House when he left office last year.
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) confirmed in a Friday letter to the House Oversight Committee that some 15 boxes Trump returned last month after being requested to do so, contained classified national security documents. "NARA has identified items marked as classified national security information within the boxes," archivist David Ferriero wrote.
Previously, The New York Times reported that classified documents were included with the records Trump was required to return. The Washington Post further reported that some of the documents were classified as "top secret."
Kirschner commented on the scandal during an MSNBC segment on Friday evening, predicting that Trump could face multiple indictments in the near future. Specifically when it comes to the documents issue, the legal expert contended that anyone else would already be indicted given the information currently available.
"That is a five-year felony. The National Archives has reported and referred to the Department of Justice for investigation the fact that Donald Trump removed classified national security information from the White House and he whisked it away to Mar-a-Lago," he said.
The legal expert appeared to be referring to 18 U.S. Code § 1924, which addresses "unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material." The law penalizes the crime with a fine or imprisonment "for not more than five years, or both."
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He took the documents while President. Guess who ultimately determines what is or is not classified? Yeah, that’s right, the President. Case closed, everyone can go home and, while there, the Leftards can GF themselves.
Sandy Burglar Defense...
Also BTW, Trump still has his security clearance, and Biden ignored the security cleared encrypted communications from to Trump on January 6th and ordered them released to Jan 6 fake a@@ committee who DOES NOT and never has had- not one member- the SECURITY CLEARANCE to even subpoena them much less read them. Not even.. Adam Schiff has that.
Their a@@es are grass for discussing, sharing with the press the works— and incidentally they aren’t because the information is exculpatory— nothing there except Pelosi refusing the Nat. Guard of DC commanded by-—Trump!
A five year felony???
Gee, you’d think he set up his own private server at home to do secret government stuff on or something…
..and we KNOW that THAT isn’t a crime in this country..
IIRC destroying a government issued cell phone is a felony.
“As the primary national Original Classification Authority (President), I declassified them.”
He certainly had that option as the number one classification authority, no matter what they were classified as.
So let me get this right.
Trump handled all those document and said, “Hey I want this
one. And I want that one. Hey I want all those over there
too. Psst, don’t tell anyone. Okay, let’s go. Bring all
those boxes!” /s
I’m sure he’s been pouring over all those documents late at
night thinking, “Oh I’m so glad I took that one. Oh those
too...” .s
Do these people even think before they make accusations
like this?
How would Trump know he had Top Secret documents unless
someone told him. He could go a decade and not know.
I’m so sick of these GOTCHA moments!
All together now!
“Trump is done for now! This is it. He’ll never get out
of this!”
Chumps...
Some still curious how the long sought subpoenaed whitewater billing records finally appeared in plain sight in the white house. Long walk I guess.
Someone needs to tell these idiots that as president, Trump had sole authority to declassify any document in the US government. This authority could be authorized by the simple statement: “Take that box”.
….too bad they can’t prove it. Waiting on who the source was…..
It is indisputable that as President Trump had the absolute right to declassify any information or documents he wanted at ant time simply by deciding to do so.
Trumps Docs were (are ) in a SKIF. This is a big nothing burger and they know it.
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He’s also beholden to Google from his days at NYPL, works closely with Wikipedia, and has a hand in a major Lockheed Martin contract with NARA:
“The cost of building a digital system to gather, preserve and give the public access to the records of the federal government has ballooned as high as $1.4 billion, and the project could go as much as 41 percent over budget, government auditors reported Friday. The Government Accountability Office blames the cost overruns and schedule delays on weak oversight and planning by the National Archives, which awarded a $317 million contract to Lockheed Martin six years ago to create a modern archive for electronic records. . .Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero, responding to a draft of the GAO report in November, agreed with most of the findings and said his staff plans to address them soon. He disagreed with auditors’ estimate of the project cost, saying the cost of project management, planning and research should not be included. . .”
Here are his confirmation hearings—nothing jumps out too much:
https://sgp.fas.org/congress/2009/ferriero.pdf
Sandy Berger
The president is the final authority for classification of documents. His possession is absolute authority.
I suspect that we will find payments for murder...
I agree. I wonder how much of this is being orchestrated by der Beast and Zer0? I think President Trump as the goods on them from the NSA.
Rd & laugh later.
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