If the Archive gods get in such a panic about these documents then WHY are the Presidents allowed to leave with them? Let Archive take them all and let the President go to them and pick out what he wants. Then the god of the Archive will forever be in charge. and happy-until the dems are in charge and then it is OK to take them.
Why did the national Archives let Sandy Berger knowingly walk out with Top Secret documents, then hide them and possibly destroy some, all the while under the watch of a NARA staffer?
Why was he NOT prosecuted?
Have do you say Cover up?
It has rarely been pointed out that the NARA has limited authority in such matters. True, they have a responsibility to know the location of these documents but not the authority to override POTUS. The telling point is that the archive statutes provide no criminal penalties to be enforced.
The dictator, Bitem, has tried to exercise authority - but they want to appear to have no foreknowledge of the raid... awkward, to say the least. Prez Obama issued an executive order allowing a president to cancel a previous president's claims of executive privilege. Oddly, this EO came as a surprise recently to the legal community.
Its constitutional validity is likely to be decided in the next few weeks by former Trump aide, Peter Navarro; he has challenged that EO. IMHO it will fall; George Washington established the principle of executive privilege (separation of powers) and long exercise has established legal precedence. If a president can cancel it for a predecessor then it never existed at all.
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It seems increasingly apparent that AG Garland cast a wide (unconstitutional) net with his warrant, expecting to lose at least some ground. Meantime, he may have possession of prosecutable material from Russiagate (AG Barr may have already provided this material to SC Durham); ...of prosecutable material against Trump for Jan 06 (unlikely); ...of attorney/client privilege material of Trump, material that will come under the authority of the 'special master' appointed by the judge soon; ...of financial, business and tax records - also under the hand of the special master; and finally, personal and family matters also under the jurisdiction of the special master and the appointing judge.
Assuming that the special master and the appointing judge are on the square, what is DoJ/FBI left with? We may already be seeing that 'product' in the Adam Schiff-like leaks popping up in the media - unverifiable, untraceable unfounded rumors that scurvy 'Rats like Pelosi and Schiff can try to add credibility to as 'Classified but you can believe us.' These people live in the farm yard filth of D.C. and have their corrupt media to trumpet their braying.
For some reason I could not include you in my #41 previous.