(08-24-2022 11:25 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(08-24-2022 11:20 AM)mlb Wrote:  

(08-24-2022 11:17 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  For classified documents, that is exactly wrong. Presidents can declassify simply by sharing a classified document with someone without classification. The document is automatically declassified if he shares it with a foreign official. If a president takes a document from a secure to non-secure location, it is deemed declassified.

Classification statutes DO NOT APPLY TO THE PRESIDENT. There are no "rules" he has to follow.

Please show me where he can do this. You have not shown this is legal. This is the point I've made from the beginning. He can change the classification, but it still has to go through the official channels to be available for FOIA requests, that the departments it pertains to is aware of it now being declassified, etc. etc.. This is where you are getting hung up on things. He cannot just take it and say it is declassified without making people aware of the new classification of said document.

FFS, now he's claiming that he doesn't even have to SAY it's declassified, he just has to take it out of the SCIF!

That is all a president has to do you big dumb***.

CLASSIFICATION STATUTES DO NOT APPLY TO THE PRESIDENT.

I'm not sure how many times a numbnut has to read that til they get it.