Letter Surfaces of Obama Foundation Admitting in 2018 They Keep Classified Documents in Unsecured Storage at Furniture Warehouse

The Last Refuge ^ | September 18, 2022 | sundance

[Bratch]

Letter Surfaces of Obama Foundation Admitting in 2018 They Keep Classified Documents in Unsecured Storage at Furniture Warehouse

September 21, 2022 | sundance | 12 Comments

“Hoffman Estates” is a previously abandoned Chicago area Sears furniture warehouse.  The Obama Foundation leased, then re-upped the lease, to use the facility to store all the paper documents from the Obama administration {Location Link}.

The Obama administration told the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) they were going to upload the documents into a digital form for use in the Obama library.  The paper documents were, still are, held at the Hoffman Estates warehouse while this digitization process took place.  It should be noted, the Obama Foundation has never digitized the records, hence they renewed the warehouse lease.

Contrast against the DOJ-NSD legal position about classified records held in the secure facility of Mar-a-Lago, a 2018 letter {Obama.org pdf here} from the Obama Foundation to the NARA is an example of the two-tiered selective justice system.  Within the 2018 letter the Obama team admit to storing both “classified and unclassified” documents at the warehouse: [Page #2, bullet-point 7]

[Obama.Org pdf]

Obviously, there were no raids on Hoffman Estates from the FBI to secure the classified documents.  Nor did the DOJ National Security Division trigger a criminal investigation of President Obama for holding documents, particularly classified documents, against the interests of the NARA while they “digitized them;” a process, which again should be noted, never even began.

The intent of sharing this information is just to highlight the political dynamic within the NARA, DOJ and FBI as it pertains to selective enforcement of presidential records.

Once again, to hopefully save the time of responding to DC inquiry, all of this information is open-source discovery.  It exists in the vast space of the internet and this letter itself is found in the archives of the Obama Foundation itself.

This information does not surface as an outcome of any CTH relationship with any entity who is now, or was ever, part of the Trump administration or the Trump legal team. So, save your insufferable subpoenas.

Readers, researchers and news media can do whatever they want with the information provided.  The source citations are provided. Make it your own, or not.

[Bratch]

The key to all this is “intent”. No one in the MSM and the Deep State would hold the belief that the Obama Adm had ill intent.

But With Trump they would promote any and all bad intentions because he’s Trump.

Exactly.

[StAnDeliver]

"The paper documents were, still are, held at the Hoffman Estates warehouse while this digitization process took place. "

Raid time.

[StAnDeliver]

"The point of your post was that the Obama Foundation had custody of the classified and unclassified records and not NARA...But my point simply is, to argue effectively on these subjects we need to stick with the facts as they are. Hence, my point in bringing to your attention, your error in who is leasing the Hoffman Estates and has actual custody of the records."

Your point is on the top of your head. Does it strike you as remotely appropriate to store thousands if not a million Classified documents by leasing a non-secure building from a failing company (Transformco, literally the glue holding the ashes of Sears together) in an easily-accessible suburban location, likely behind nothing more than a single deadbolt on the interior glass doors.

[StAnDeliver]

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