Team Trump suddenly remembered a previously undisclosed “standing order” about a declassification process for which there is no paper trail? C’mon. (via MaddowBlog)
“ about declassifying sensitive materials that he brought with him to the White House residence.
Right off the bat, let’s start with the most obvious problem: Trump doesn’t appear to have done what he now claims he did. NBC NewsRichard Immerman, a historian and an assistant deputy director of national intelligence in the Obama administration, said that, while the president has the authority to declassify documents, there’s a formal process for doing so, and there’s no indication Trump used it. “He can’t just wave a wand and say it’s declassified,” Immerman said.
The former president and his team aren’t pointing to documentation from the National Security Council or the White House counsel’s office; they’re simply asserting that materials were declassified, as if we’re supposed to take their word for it., there’s a disconnect between the claim and the controversy, since the relevant criminal statutes operate separately from the executive branch’s system of classifying documents.
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