Posted on 01/27/2023 9:24:23 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The National Archives have asked former presidents and vice presidents to double check their records for any classified documents following the bombshell revelations that President Joe Biden had several “top secret” documents himself, along with former President Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence.
In a letter from the agency, they requested former officials to “conduct an assessment of any materials held outside of NARA that relate to the Administration for which you serve as a designated representative under the PRA, to determine whether bodies of materials previously assumed to be personal in nature might inadvertently contain Presidential or Vice Presidential records subject to the PRA, whether classified or unclassified.”
Under the Presidential Records Act, confidential records created or received by the president are the property of the U.S. government and are required to be relinquished by the archives at the end of the administration to preserve for historical purposes.
However, the law lacks any legal teeth to hold on to with no criminal penalty for those who do not comply with the act.
Still, mishandled documents are another conversation.
The letter was sent to representatives of former Presidents Trump, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan, and former Vice Presidents Pence, Biden, Dick Cheney, Al Gore, and Dan Quayle.
In addition, national archives general counsel Gary Stern has agreed to sit for a transcribed interview with the House Oversight Committee regarding Biden’s mishandling of classified documents.
Led by Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the committee has demanded answers from the Biden Administration as to why the official documents were stashed at both his Delaware home and his D.C. office the president used while serving as vice president.
“President Biden promised to have the most transparent administration in history, but he refuses to be transparent when it matters most," Comer recently said.
I imagine they are like a library and know when something is checked out but not returned. Have they not been doing their jobs?
RE: I imagine they are like a library and know when something is checked out but not returned.
OK, but why go after only one particular book borrower and ignore the rest?
They should have come forward within days of the Trump raid.
Now, they should be raided as well. Everybody knows Obama has a stash in Chicago.
IF we had THIS level of ineptitude and casual approach to the integrity of Presidential duties back during the 18th century, we’d STILL be a British colony!
I guess Carter is forgettable enough….
Great minds, parallel paths!
As a historical researcher, I spent many hours at the Archives in D.C., going through the pension and military records of Civil War soldiers. Most of those records were over 135 years old. Tell me why then, when I attempted to access pension records for Civil War Soldiers, they were unavailable at the Archives, because they were still in the custody of the Veteran's Administration? I had a long list of pension records that I had to request to view from the VA, and in order to be able to do that, I had to write my then Congressman, for him to light a fire under the VA's ass. I finally got access to several of them, but I had to drive 5 hours to Buffalo, New York to review them. I'm betting that there are still thousands of those Civil War pension records sitting in some old metal or wooden filing cabinet in VA basements all over this country, and the Archives has never worried about getting control of those.
They know who has them. The files are checked out to the person who has them. When some checks the records they can see who checked them out.
They are projecting?
Everbody does it, so it is not important. (even without examination)
Expose em All!
Exactly.
Just a minute hear...they’re trying to steer us...I’d like to search Pelosi’s houses....and a few more...like Comey...any head that could classify something....and unclassify the same.
Maybe they should have “urged” DJT instead of raiding him . . .
Hook em 5 million bucks for each one found and not declassified.
10 million if they are a congress critter or former VP.
This is the diversion that keeps everyone not looking at the hunter and China money the congress critters all get.
Nuts. It is NARA’s job to know where those documents are.
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