Posted on 01/25/2023 12:39:29 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton are sidestepping the classified documents controversies embroiling their successors, with staffers saying the former presidents all turned over their materials to the National Archives and Records Administration years ago when they left office.
"That process was conducted in 2008 and 2009, and all Presidential records – classified and unclassified – were turned over to the National Archives upon leaving the White House," said Freddy Ford, Bush's spokesperson, when asked what Bush is doing to assess whether he has any classified documents in his possession, in light of recent discoveries that President Joe Biden as well as former President Donald Trump had kept classified records.
Clinton's office similarly says, "All of President Clinton's classified materials were properly turned over to NARA in accordance with the Presidential Records Act."
Obama's office also says his classified documents are with NARA and pointed to a September statement from NARA, refuting news outlets and individuals on social media who were "mistakenly reporting" that NARA confirmed a large number of Obama's presidential records were missing. "This is false," the statement said. "NARA has never issued any such statement and is not aware of any missing boxes of Presidential records from the Obama administration."
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Of course, they don’t...ROFL
HAHAHAHAHAAHHA.
All had their personal attorneys check their underwear drawers. Right FBI?
Right, BILL doesn’t have any.
Sure, nod nod, wink wink.
What about Jimmy??? (s)
Alrighty then....
Hillary weighed in yet....
Its interesting it was not Biden’s lawyers who reported the classified materials at his place (as the media tries to claim) but the Director of the National Archives who reported these lawyers tried to slip the purloined documents back into storage at the National Archives.
This must mean these documents cannot just be shredded, they are controlled copies with some official record they exist.
Only if a truck scale is available.
Yeah, well Pence said in an interview that he didn’t have any classified documents either. Until he did...
The simple explanation is Trump docs were legally declassed and declared.
What was the process and documentation for this?
We be good deep-state slaves. Don’t wup us Mista Deep-state! Honest!
Were any of the documents classified?
Close, but no cigar, he added.
Trump declassified the documents in his possession right before he left office. Since he was the President at the time, guess what? When he says they are declassified then POOF! They are no longer classified.
The documents still had a label that said "classified" because the POOF does not extend to the labels. The labels just became incorrect.
When one leaves a job one has lots of copies of paperwork concerning the job. Nobody gives them all back, that is silly. If one is President a lot of those documents will have a classified sticker on them, even if what is in them is not really classified. They just slap that label on liberally.
The F.B.I. raid on Trump was not about protecting classified documents but was obviously a targeted outrageous abuse of power.
Now the media is trying to pretend like its not common place for former administrations to have documents including some marked as classified.
We live in stupid-world where the talking heads on TV are stupid and want you to be stupid with them.
They might be telling the truth since they have the authority to declassify.
BJ was having Sandy Burglar stuffing dox in his underpants....must have been something he wanted to get "lost".
So, what did Jimmy Carter say?
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It’s the Honor system for everyone but Trump.
Isn’t that sweet.
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