Posted on 01/18/2023 6:26:01 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Notice the Snopes propaganda.
Biden had a “few” documents...Trump had “hundreds”.
The executive order is here:
I scanned the document with a “find” instruction. I found that the document authorized Vice President Biden to classify documents, but did NOT authorize him to declassi9fy documents.
Even if you were to make an argument that classification power implies declassification power, the executive order goes out of its way to separate classification authority from declassification authority, and specifies exactly who may declassify documents. The Vice President is not included in the people who may declassify documents.
This is meaningless. All this is saying is that Biden can ONLY declassify anything that HE ALONE classified.
Democrat press trying to muddy the waters yet again
So, if they say Biden can declassify documents and there’s no record of it, and they insist, anyway, then President Trump can do same. Right?
They are left in the ridiculous position of arguing that the president as chief executive can not declassify anything, especially if his name is Trump, but a vice president can declassify everything.
The truth is, the vice president is (maybe) able to declassify documents that he classified in the first place.
Don’t be fooled, these people are all crazy, and lie as naturally as breathing.
I’d be curious to know what he classified, and why. Is it all Hunter/Ukraine/China stuff?
You noticed that too.
Biden has the authority to turn the lights on and off. But leaves them on all night anyway.
Biden had the power to declassify anything he classified.
Ok. Was he the Original Classification Authority for these documents? Probably not.
Besides, carelessly handling documents is not the same as declassifying. For Biden or Trump.
Good catch. Thanks for your effort.
Not that it will matter. Everyone in the media will say that a declassification power is implied. That’s not so. But it will probably stick.
Our Republican senators might take a bolder approach: “There is no declassification power. But hey, it’s an honest mistake. So let’s all move on to spending money we don’t have.”
Could be but then he’d prove yet again what an idiot he is.
So he can admit to having docs he classified or admit to having lost classified docs
This is going to be their mantra for the next two weeks. As always, they will lie, cheat and steal to protect their man.
“..They must have done some exhaustive research to come up that....”
Without a doubt
Probably cost pedoPete a big pile of that 10% cash too....just one the costs of doing business with the Chinese these days. /s
If any knows it would be Sudiksha Kochi. An “expert” on America. Sarc/ ROTFLMAO.
Let’s have Dershowitz and Jonathan Turley weigh in on this.
Scumbag Marxist RATS play buy different rules than everyone else.
What do you expect Snopes or USA Today to say about a scandal a Dem Pres is in? Typical Free Republic poster protecting Democrats.
The Constutution is an undead document. It means whatever the Left animates it to mean as their need arises. It can even contradict itself when needed.
If either one declassified sensitive documents just for their convenience I think it's a bigger scandal than sloppy handling.
If ant of these documents were declassified by Trump or Biden they should be released to the public.
These questions obfuscate some underlying problems with Big Government or the Deep State. Classification is a tool to hide things, not from our enemies, but from the American people in many cases. Classification allows government to say one thing and deceive citizens by doing another. I’m not saying there are not legitimate reasons for classification, I’m just saying it is over used. And here’s the real security threat. Since classification is so widely used, supposedly millions of documents, there are thousands and thousands of people with security clearances. That in itself is a security risk.
Government is broken. It is so vast and huge that its size is a security risk. Government becomes the enemy of itself. Put another way, since government is representative of people, government is the enemy of the people. As always, my go to solution is make government substantially smaller. This simple solution solves so many problems. Until the GOP remembers this, Republicans are the problem. I don’t want one damn new thing in government until it is reduced in size by 80%. That’s my guess of how much government exists that isn’t in line with the powers enumerated in the US Constitution. Anyways, anything proposed to be new in government supposedly doesn’t already exist. We’ve survived without those new things since 1789 and I’m pretty sure we will thrive without those things.
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