Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Fact check: Biden did have the authority to declassify documents as vice president
USA Today | January 18, 2023 | By Sudiksha Kochi

Posted on 01/18/2023 6:26:01 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-98 next last
To: Savage Rider

And storing in a garage in boxes.

Sure

“Everybody knows where the booze is”


61 posted on 01/18/2023 7:38:13 AM PST by combat_boots ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 58 | View Replies]

To: Bloody Sam Roberts

13292


62 posted on 01/18/2023 7:38:40 AM PST by sunny bonobo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: nagant

Bingo


63 posted on 01/18/2023 7:39:47 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: mastertex

Trump changed or deleted that executive order......
****************
When and what’s Trump’s EO number?


64 posted on 01/18/2023 7:40:14 AM PST by sunny bonobo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Oldeconomybuyer
The interesting thing here is that USAToday, which is a direct Mockingbird mouthpiece, Langley literally just 'up the street' from Tysons Corner, is telling us the Narrative will be to attempt to protect Biden even if it means losing the Mar-a-Lago case. Which is almost a certainty now, unless they are dumb enough to give Trump a cudgel and a warpath by charging him and not charging Biden.

The other thing about this lame piece is that Bobo's EO hasn't been tested in Court. It may very well be unconstitutional, and they are unlikely to pay that price in SCOTUS by charging Trump.

65 posted on 01/18/2023 7:40:29 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sir Bangaz Cracka

Sadly, you’re probably right.


66 posted on 01/18/2023 7:42:17 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies]

To: Oldeconomybuyer

NEVER heard of such a status for VP

SHOW ME


67 posted on 01/18/2023 7:43:48 AM PST by ridesthemiles
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeInPA

I have the same questions about Biden’s “attorneys”.


68 posted on 01/18/2023 7:46:15 AM PST by ridesthemiles
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: Savage Rider

Section 3.1.b.1 covers Biden declassifying if he originally classified. A limited exception in fact. “(1) the official who authorized the original classification, if that official is still serving in the same position and has original classification authority;”
~~~~

That would be a specific exception which would depend on the individual documents found.

Reportedly at least some of the classified documents found in Biden’s possession were Obama-created and classified documents. If true, Biden would not have had authority to declassify them.

Even then, a president can declassify any document merely by how he uses or stores it. The executive order in question outlines specific steps which any other Executive Department official must take to declassify a document. I’m pretty sure that none of the classified documents found in Biden’s possession went through any declassification procedure.


69 posted on 01/18/2023 7:47:29 AM PST by nagant
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 58 | View Replies]

To: Socon-Econ

“EXECUTIVE ORDERS” are running the country-—NOT Congress.


70 posted on 01/18/2023 7:48:40 AM PST by ridesthemiles
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 54 | View Replies]

To: Oldeconomybuyer

Umm, no.


71 posted on 01/18/2023 7:58:32 AM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mastertex

Why aren’t the Biden’s wind chimes yet? The treasonous bastards!


72 posted on 01/18/2023 8:11:57 AM PST by spincaster
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: mykroar

the vice president is included in a list of “original classification authorities,” meaning Biden had the power declassify anything he classified.


This is true...but that is as far as it goes. Only what he alone had classified. If there is anything from any other classification authority in those documents, then he cannot.

The President, on the other hand, can declassify anything whatsoever.


73 posted on 01/18/2023 8:13:43 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Bloody Sam Roberts

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-classified-national-security-information


74 posted on 01/18/2023 8:14:27 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: tet68

Biden had a few
Trump had hundreds
Obama had thousands, and no one went after Obama, right?
Why is that?


75 posted on 01/18/2023 8:15:04 AM PST by Cloverfarm (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem ...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: Sirius Lee

The mockingbirds are singing in unison this morning I see.


Don’t they always...once they receive their TPMs??


76 posted on 01/18/2023 8:17:40 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 of day. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: mastertex

Also the Secretary of State can keep a server in her bathroom. But not Trump. Anything he does is wrong. Anything Biden and Hitlery do is right. Right there in the Constitution.


77 posted on 01/18/2023 9:19:15 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Ann Archy

Derivative classification authority, perhaps. And declassification authority is delegated down many levels from POTUS.


78 posted on 01/18/2023 9:48:46 AM PST by jagusafr ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fake News.

By executive order? He had authority to re-classify something he had classified but not something that the president or his designated in charge of agencies had classified.

He could only declassify anything he had classified.


79 posted on 01/18/2023 10:10:25 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sacajaweau

Bump!

YES

Xi-O’Biden has broken a serious law. And he used it to collect money.


80 posted on 01/18/2023 10:11:34 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-98 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson