A Declass Act

The discovery of Obama-era classified documents at President Biden‘s former office in Washington has sparked a debate over whether vice presidents have the power to declassify sensitive materials. [More]

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2 thoughts on “A Declass Act”

Archer says:

January 11, 2023 at 7:00 pm

IANAL, but I’m pretty sure the VP does NOT have the authority to declassify documents.

I’m also pretty sure the media and DOJ “investigators” will suddenly decide it’s no big deal and the VP can do that.

But once again, the Left should be careful what it wishes for, because it will torpedo any chance they have of destroying Trump on possession of classified documents in an “unsecured” private setting. Either that or it will clearly demonstrate (once again) that we have two separate and unequal justice systems: one for “Only Ones” and Leftists, and another for everyone else.
Tionico says:

January 12, 2023 at 2:30 pm

There are two aspects of this situation:
One ONLY the sitting President has authority to blanket declssify documents. This came out clearly after the MaL raid. Trump had declassified eVERYTHINB he had brought to his residence. At the time the documents recently discovered that were Biden’s he was VP at the time thus could NOT have declassified them.

Second issue is HOW and WHERE are the docuents kept? Trump’s Mal Residence is secure, guarded by upposedly loyal and trustworthy FedGov agents. Thus even if the docents Trump had at his home were not declassified, they were still secure. Biden’s trove of yet-classified documents were in sime not-secure office building thus NOT secured in any meaningful way.

but again, there really ARE two different standards. One applies to anyone named Donald Trump, the other to… anyone else, mostl, unless the person in question stronly supports the aforementioned.

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