Most of the things in those (and nearly all boxes) are things we Citizens should know.
Very, very little should actually be classified; *only* the precise capabilities of the newest high-end weapon systems, communication techniques, and the identities of active spies.
I say let the fedgov have *one* box of stuff to keep secret per year, automatically becoming public information after 10 years.
It should be harder to classify *anything* than to get a building permit in a wetland.
“After Johnson’s death, Rostow put his documents in a sealed envelope and gave them to the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library....the library opened the envelope in the 1990s, although some of the material has yet to be declassified.”
https://theintercept.com/2022/08/11/trump-fbi-mar-a-lago-classified-documents-lbj/
Seems pretty clear to me. What part of that Brit 79, seems "incoherent" to you?
I heard Hume say that on FNC evening news. Right then and there, I decided to end all ties to Fox. Hume looked angry and agitated.
I hope his attorneys bring up the argument the National Archives staff refused to help Trump and his staff go through the documents and prepare them for removal. In the end, pushed for time had to pack up their own stuff. They helped past Presidents, except Trump.
Trump knowing this should have called a press conference announcing archives refusal to help. That would have helped his case.
I hope his attorneys bring up the argument the National Archives staff refused to help Trump and his staff go through the documents and prepare them for removal. In the end, pushed for time had to pack up their own stuff. They helped past Presidents, except Trump.
Trump knowing this should have called a press conference announcing archives refusal to help. That would have helped his case.
Brit is still cashing checks from the Evil Media Empire of Rupert Murdoch?
Haven’t subscribed to FNC since 2016, guess I’m out of touch, thankfully.
“Long before Wikileaks and social media, the journalist Drew Pearson exposed to public view information that public officials tried to keep hidden. A self-professed “keyhole peeper”, Pearson devoted himself to revealing what politicians were doing behind closed doors. From 1932 to 1969, his daily “Washington Merry-Go-Round” column and weekly radio and TV commentary broke secrets, revealed classified information, and passed along rumors based on sources high and low in the federal government, while intelligence agents searched fruitlessly for his sources.”
“Breaking secrets was the heartbeat of Pearson’s column. His ability to reveal classified information, even during wartime, motivated foreign and domestic intelligence agents to pursue him. He played cat and mouse with the investigators who shadowed him, tapped his phone, read his mail, and planted agents among his friends. Yet they rarely learned his sources. The FBI found it so fruitless to track down leaks to the columnist that it advised agencies to simply do a better job of keeping their files secret. Drawing on Pearson’s extensive correspondence, diaries, and oral histories, The Columnist reveals the mystery behind Pearson’s leaks and the accuracy of his most controversial revelations.”
https://www.amazon.com/Columnist-Leaks-Libel-Pearsons-Washington/dp/0190067586
And Britt knows a thing or two about “incoherent”.
Hume’s soul is incoherent.
Well if Brit says so.....
Brit Hume never was very good at analyzing any of the stories he covers he has the shot gun effect on fact finding he works at FOX for a reason.
Corrupt paid propagandaist treasonous asshole in need of consequences for his treachery just like all the rest of his peers and handlers.
Hume is a Bush Republican who has always disparaged President Trump. He’s Fox News hit man with a calm demeanor.
I’m a bigly Trump supporter but Hume is right. Donald needs to shut up. He is giving them the rope to hang himself. Feds are very good at twisting your words to use against you and it can be very effective.
It is hard to make a point with the weasel Baier interrupting and not allowing him to complete his narrative.
I understand it this way:
1) There are the classified documents that Trump knew was classified and kept in a safe. He didn’t return those because he had declassified them.
2) There are all the other boxes of documents, many of which Trump or a designated staffer didn’t get around to going through that might contain documents the National Archives wanted and documents that were still classified or had classified markings on them.
It does make sense but it can be made to appear “incoherent.” I don’t suppose Trump’s experience with presidential documents — classified and unclassified — is that different from other presidents, vice presidents, top politicians and top bureaucrats, but it’s being made to look particularly chaotic and careless and the public, and possibly the jury, are going to be pushed to that conclusion.