(08-13-2022, 07:15 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(08-13-2022, 07:05 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: He doesn't have to claim anything, the President can and does declassify by action alone. There's no ceremony, no incantation, no journal entry...nothing. The Executive has that right and authority and Biden should be fighting this not instigating it.

But does he have to provide evidence that he actually did it, other than just claiming he did it?  Because if he can just claim he did it, then he can take any classified document, without telling anyone.  Is that okay with you?  What if it was a list of all our spies in China?  Should he be able to take that with him when he leaves office, and store it in a box at home, never having told anyone he was going to do that?  

Shouldn't he follow the normal procedure, which involves bringing in the heads of the agencies affected and going through a logical process, including discussion, and marking the document "declassified?"  Apparently he didn't do any of that.  He just decided to take stuff home, including at least one document of the highest classification level.   

What if he said, "Gee, this is a really cool weapon system.  I think I'll that this one with me."  Is that okay with you?  Just take any classified document and if he's found out, claim he declassified them?

The procedure is as follows: 

Having a majority of electors, He was sworn in Jan 2017 as the President of the United States.  Having been so sworn, he is at the top of and has unilateral authority over the armed forces, all state secrets and the classification there of.  As such, it is his sole direction what is or is not classified and who may or may not have access to certain information.  

The legal reasoning to try and frame the exercise of due authority as a potential criminal cation is specious in general, to use it 91 days b4 an election is corrupt on its face and to direct it @ the head of the opposition party, former head of state, and front runner for the republican nomination is something ain to a banana republic not THE Republic.

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