Smith is a deep-state worm.
His argument is: the intel-bureaucratic control over “classification” overrides all Presidential rights and prerogatives or any elected official. Presidential “personal” documents are one thing, but our “classifications” trump everything else.
F*** him and his CIA/Globalist masters.
His argument is basically “The bureaucracy controls the President. The President does not control the bureaucracy.”............
This argument - that the President serves the Executive Branch rather than the other way around goes back at least to Watergate, and probably to 11/22/63.
The idea of an “independent” Justice Department is a Constitutional monstrosity.
Anyone appointed by the President, or working for an appointee, is subservient to the unitary Executive prescribed by Article II. This isn’t even a close question.
But we are far enough down this road that clawing back Presidential authority may be impossible.