But if Trump declassified them all, does that apply?
“But if Trump declassified them all, does that apply?”
If they are sure the whole thing is declassified. As I read into this at one time Trump was supposed to have declassified the documents involved...maybe. Were documents added to it not declassified? It was also said that Biden reclassified some or all of the documents that Trump had downgraded.
That’s sketchy also as if the documents he had declassified were in his possession, the archives would have known and would have demanded a recovery of them upon reclassification. That might have happened but the media can’t be trusted as they failed to mention that between the time Trump declassified the documents and Biden put them back in the corral, Trump is not doing anything illegal.
Further more, how far down the chain can compartmental information be classified to? If they were compartmental, almost the highest classification we have, then information within them will still be classified at some level possibly top secret or compartmental. A high level classification doesn’t just go away like brushing dirt off your sleeve. Yet The Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) allowed possibly top top to get out of their control into a compromised area. And every inch they traveled was in a compromised area out side storage.
As far as I can figure, there are a lot of people that compromised our security at the highest level and how many more screwups like this have they accomplished, intentional or not adds to the mix? Who gets to fall on their sword for this dog and pony show?
The person that is going to review these documents will have to be given blanket authority and that is very unusual as classifications, besides the need for level, is also limited to topic, need to know. If the president’s birthdate is confidential, and I have a clearance level to see it, do I have the need to know where he was born as that would be on the document to verify the date? And they can’t call the review a fact finding because you can’t get an open clearance to cover everything as the topic of the documents is not in question but they still are classified for their content that could be mixed with other information I don’t have a need to know. I might have a need to know if they are classified at the level they are, but to find that I have to delve into information that I can’t legally see to determine that is more than questionable. Catch 22.
I’m asking a lot of questions that can’t be known until someone figures out a way to do what they want even if it means ignoring policy or regulation. And that’s been done before...see Hilary’s pif that was empty of documents she was supposed to sign and nothing happened there because she “didn’t do it on purpose.”
So everything is not a forgivable accident? One person can create a disclosure of some of the most secret information the US has and spend her time in the Hamptons. But another can have his home searched and hammered into a congressional trial for the exact same thing, even less wrong as he had the right to the information legally. Here’s your sign.
wy69