The deep state is showing its desperation. Bigly.
One question: to which higher authority in the Executive Branch does President Trump request permission to declassify documents?
The wet work gangs at the DOJ will fuel some kook to take Trump out. Then take out the kook. Bank on it.
Bill Clinton’s sock drawer is giggling.
Please point to the written procedure the President must follow. I haven't seen it.
Actually, the Clinton sock drawer cas has already established it.
The President decides what’s classified, not some professional affirmative action administrative state bureaucratic parasite.
Only mentally ill pervert supremacists would believe otherwise.
“ Some secrets, such as information related to nuclear weapons, are handled separately under a specific statutory scheme that Congress has adopted under the Atomic Energy Act. Those secrets cannot be automatically declassified by the president alone and require, by law, extensive consultation with executive branch agencies.”
This bears repeating.
Everyone should calm down a bit until we see what is in the indictment.
Policy…procedure…blah…blah…blah…. Bureaucratic policies and procedures can’t trump a President’s constitutional authority. We’ve created such an extra-constitutional administrative state that the bureaucrats and government lawyers actually believe that the Constitution is subordinate to their dictates.
Former Asst. Attorney for DOJ under Trump named CClark said tonight that he was contacted, coincidentally today by, I think prosecutors, because they are attempting to take his DC BAR license. Disgusting.
Funny (not) how no had a problem with Carter blurting out about our Stealth technology in a speech to bolster his appearance as strong on defense. Dems can declassify something simply by thought but Pubs can’t??
“In all cases, however, a formal procedure is required so governmental agencies know with certainty what has been declassified and decisions memorialized. ”
Outright lies
But the ABA was started as and remains a communist organization
“PART 2000—ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES [RESERVED]
PART 2001—CLASSIFIED NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION”
Because of the “[RESERVED]” I’m not sure if this is operational law.
Every other person in office has to abide by those laws, but not the president.
“ABA Legal Fact Check notes”??
The ABA does NOT MAKE LAW! Nor Interpret Law!
The ABA is collection, with many Leftist Layers.
They are a part of the DC Establishment.
Many Lawyers are not members of the ABA (like the AMA, for doctors).
“In all cases, however, a formal procedure is required so governmental agencies know with certainty what has been declassified and decisions memorialized. A federal appeals court in a 2020 Freedom of Information Act case, New York Times v. CIA, underscored that point: “Declassification cannot occur unless designated officials follow specified procedures,” the court said.”
Even though President Trump had the power as president to declassify whatever, should he do that without going through the process? How will involved departments know how to move forward if they don’t even know what is declassified? How would assets know if they need to watch out if their involvement is no longer protected?
I don’t know that saying he can declassify with his mind does him any good. President Trump would be better served to show that he went through the appropriate steps in order to safeguard the country’s secrets, which even some msm have admitted he did.
Do we trust the ultra leftists at the ABA?
The Donkey Communists:
1. have known what documents Trump had for months
2. knew the relevant law months ago
3. have long known they have no case with respect to the documents.
18 U.S. Code § 793 -
Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information
(d)Whoever,
>lawfully having possession of, access to, control over, or being entrusted with any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note
>>relating to the national defense,
>>or information relating to the national defense
>>>which information the possessor has reason to believe
>>>>could be used to the injury of the United States
>>>>or to the advantage of any foreign nation,
>willfully communicates, delivers, transmits or causes to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted or attempts to communicate, deliver, transmit or cause to be communicated, delivered or transmitted the same to any person not entitled to receive it,
>or willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it; or
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793