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Kash Patel: All The Documents At Mar-a-Lago Were Already Declassified Unilaterally By President Trump (video)
realclearpolitics ^ | August 12, 2022 | By Tim Hains

Posted on 08/12/2022 2:03:08 PM PDT by dennisw

Former Trump national security staffer Kash Patel called in with Martha Maccallum on FOX News on Friday to react to the release of the warrant used by the FBI to search President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort home.

"If he says something is declassified, that's it, it is declassified," Patel explained. "He declassified a whole set of documents that should have come out... That's on the National Archives to sort that material out... Even if it was classified, they'll never meet the burden of intent because the president didn't pack it up and take it out himself, the G.S.A. has said they did it and they made a mistake."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: creepstate; deepstate; kashpatel; kashyappatel; marthamaccallum; policestate; singlepartystate; timhains
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To: packagingguy

Martha Maccallum in the video in the OP at the 50 second mark was repeating the same thing about “waving the wand” that Bret Baier was saying.

Fox news has this ‘waving the wand’ meme going on.


41 posted on 08/12/2022 2:42:34 PM PDT by oneandfinished
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To: oneandfinished

“According to Brett Baier on Fox, Trump cannot just “wave a wand” and declare papers declassified but there is a process that has to be followed with a paper trail.”

Well then Brett, please tell us what the procedure is for a sitting President.


42 posted on 08/12/2022 2:42:46 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: DiogenesLamp

If it was officially and properly declassified, NARA would have had anything to negotiate. That’s the part that has me confused.

And I don’t think a bunch of Librarians are the ones that are going to lead the charge to destroy Trump. That doesn’t really pass the smell test.


43 posted on 08/12/2022 2:43:42 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: packagingguy

Baier parroting the pre determined line.

Looking for technicality’s. Backup is we can’t show you as it’s classified / top secret

Meanwhile non president Hillary skates by with server etc u touched


44 posted on 08/12/2022 2:43:52 PM PDT by patriotspride (Third generation Vet. Never forget the true cost of freedom)
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To: DiogenesLamp

FTR, I NEVER said everyone around President is incompetent.

Of course, he had to declassify them when he was still the president. But, others will likely claim otherwise. I believe President Trump and Kash Patel.


45 posted on 08/12/2022 2:44:23 PM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: oneandfinished

I think the botox is starting to rot out Brett Baier’s brain and he’s starting to resemble a lizard person with all the work he’s done to his face.


46 posted on 08/12/2022 2:45:43 PM PDT by SlipperySlope99
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To: Regulator

The Dems, if they can, will indict Trump for failing to dot an ‘i’ or failing to cross a ‘t’


47 posted on 08/12/2022 2:45:48 PM PDT by oneandfinished
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To: existentially_kuffer
I’m surprised people here are not listening Kash Patel.

Why? Patel spouts his stuff. Merrick spouts his stuff. Neither side believes the other. That's just the way it is.

48 posted on 08/12/2022 2:46:55 PM PDT by Lower Deck
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I am talking about Trump!
I was talking about Garland & Wray.
At least that’s who I thought the pervious poster was talking about. Maybe I misread?


49 posted on 08/12/2022 2:47:41 PM PDT by Reily
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To: dennisw
Game, set, match.

But the damage is done. That’s the leftist calculus. They generate a false crime. Then feed the media with lies. Democrats and RINO never Trumpers buy it hook, line, and sinker. It motivates the mind numbed robots to vote against Republicans.

We need to unwind the damage and inflict a death blow to all Democrats and the deep state.

50 posted on 08/12/2022 2:48:40 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: dennisw
Kash Patel is one very impressive dude.

Trump is fortunate to have him.

51 posted on 08/12/2022 2:49:03 PM PDT by lewislynn (Trump accomplished more in one term than any other President in your lifetime.)
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To: oneandfinished
According to Brett Baier on Fox, Trump cannot just “wave a wand” and declare papers declassified but there is a process that has to be followed with a paper trail.

So who is right?

The short answer is Brett Baier is wrong. The whole system of classified information is wholly under the control of the President through Executive Order.

A slightly longer answer is that while Baier is correct that there is a process for declassification, the "process" for declassification is a paperwork exercise of updating classification markings and documenting the declassification decision to reflect reality. If there's a presidential decree for declassification, that is wholly the president's call. The deep state often would slow walk these decisions to frustrate Trump, and likely they'd claim that until the deep state says it's declassified, it's not declassified (which is facturally incorrect but technically more of a "we have to do the paperwork to make sure because it's better to be safe than sorry.").

However... declassified doesn't necessarily mean the material that was classified is now totally available for the public to read though because FOIA does follow a more convoluted process and is not wholly the purview of the President.

52 posted on 08/12/2022 2:49:29 PM PDT by jz638
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To: oneandfinished

Baier is talking out his leftist ass. He suffers from TDS. He has zero credibility and proves that every time he is on TV. He needs to go by the way of Chris Wallace.


53 posted on 08/12/2022 2:51:39 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: jz638

Re: 52 - As long as President Trump has some documentation that documents were declassified, he’s good to go.


54 posted on 08/12/2022 2:51:52 PM PDT by Fury
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To: Parley Baer

Yeah Brett is a moron, any president doesnt even have to prove it, just say they did it and thats it, they dont have to write it down, they dont have to video themselves doing it, they can just say they did it and its done


55 posted on 08/12/2022 2:52:41 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: oneandfinished

According to Brett Baier on Fox, Trump cannot just “wave a wand” and declare papers declassified but there is a process that has to be followed with a paper trail.

So who is right?
*********
Unlikely that a publicly announced declassification can be rendered void just because a lower level employee, either by negligence or malevolence, does not transmit a form or check the proper box.


56 posted on 08/12/2022 2:53:54 PM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: ConservativeInPA

basically what they are doing is payback for hillary clinton..because they think if not for the allegations of wrongdoing she would have won in 2016, so what they want to do to Trump is dirty him up, have this float around, come out and issue the same similar statement they did about Hillary, and some people will believe that he did something sinister so he cant win


57 posted on 08/12/2022 2:56:04 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: dennisw

Maybe it’s documents about aliens!
Or the Kennedy assassination.
Or Epstein’s List.
Presidents. They know stuff.


58 posted on 08/12/2022 2:56:25 PM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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To: Fury

Wait I thought you dont actually have to show proof that you declassified anything..that basically all Trump has to do is say “Yeah I declassified it” and thats it


59 posted on 08/12/2022 2:57:53 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Reily
We could likely get the House vote necessary for impeachment. Where is the 2/3’rds Senate vote going to come from for removal? Without that its a note home to their respective mothers that they’ve been naughty! IMO without a reasonable shot at a conviction hence removal its a waste of time and money.

It is a statement of principle. Biden needs to be declared to be the nasty corrupt perv that he is. The house needs to acknowledge this whether the Senate will do the right thing or not.

Do you only stand up for the right thing when you can win?

60 posted on 08/12/2022 2:59:28 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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