“I trust NO ONE in our federal system any longer.”
To my knowledge, no one in the federal government can view top secret or higher security without a need to know. And that includes the president. If he didn’t have the need to know what was in the documents, then why were they released to him in the first place. Blows OPSEC AND COMSEC restrictions right out of the water. And to indicate why it isn’t legit, Hilary Clinton was allowed and never prosecuted for obtaining, storing, and transferring classified documents in her private computer system with no copies of trainings, investigations, or any finalized paperwork in her PIF. A direct violation of OPSEC AND COMSEC DOD restrictions and exactly the same situation Trump is in now.
And since many of the people searching the house did not have the clearance to view those documents either so the couldn’t be identified, then how do we know the documents are the same ones taken from the house and placed in secure storage?
A lot of bugs.
wy69
The President can see anything. He is the ultimate Executive power.
Hillary had no executive power.
The President is the OCA (Original Classification Authority), he can delegate classification to subordinates (and normally does). While acting as Chief Executive, he has access to ALL classified material and can declassify material for any reason.
Hillary, as Secretary of State, was not an OCA, moved classified information to a personal server which was not secured and tried to hide the act after it was discovered. She got away with it because she was democrat and running for POTUS. The irony is that she probably had delegated OCA authority but never bothered to remove the classification markings. No way was DOJ going to pursue her and they were furious at Comey’s bumbling farcical antics.
President Trump ordered that material going with him be declassified. Additionally, Mar Largo has a “facility clearance,” which means classified information can be stored at the site. When you have 24 hour armed Secret Service Agents, it’s an easy do. Also, former Presidents maintain their TS/SCI clearances after leaving office.
This was a spat between the National Archives and President Trump, and the DOJ saw what they thought was an opportunity to hurt him and his image. DOJ and FBI should have never been involved.
Attorneys at the DOJ serve at the pleasure of the President. When Trump returns to office, he should fire every single one. They use the FBI as their personal Geheime Staatspolizei.