(01-16-2023, 10:25 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(01-16-2023, 10:06 PM)mikesez Wrote: Buried in this is Joe has kept closer tabs on Hunter's activities than he would like to admit.  The two were definitely in cahoots. 

Anyhow, in the Obama administration you definitely had a VP and an SoS playing fast and loose with these documents in ways that would easily land plebians like us in jail. 

And in the Trump administration, at least at the end of it, Trump did the same thing.  The President has certain duties he did not fulfill, and he can only change classification status using a procedure that he did not use.

We have two choices now.  We can say "I guess that's normal now, they have the public trust, so one set of rules for them and another for us" or, we can say "let's prosecute both of them." 

We can't prosecute one and not the other. 

And we better choose carefully, because this is the kind of choice we probably won't get to revisit for a few decades.

You saying it over and over again doesn't make it any less false.

Just food for thought, many high level executive branch officials have the power to change classification status, including the Vice President.  However, none of them can do so unilaterally, and there is always a paper trail when it is done.

In the case of both Biden and Trump, it is possible but not likely that the documents they had were declassified after being printed, and just never got their classified markings removed.  The investigators are able to search for and verify that paper trail, but it's unlikely the public would ever be looped in.

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