re: Neil Gorsuch’s former law clerk says Trump has constitutional authority to declassify

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We never received a copy of the search warrant" "The search warrant was not valid" "There's nothing there" "There's nothing classified there" "The evidence was planted"

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These are all either true, exaggerations, misquotes or not from trumps team . Stop believing what you read on Twitter.

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Contained in the warrant.

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So guilty until proven innocent.

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Do you think private citizens should have classified documents at their beach houses?

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It is a former President if the United State’s personal residence. And the answer is…
Depends.
1) did this happen?
2) what are the documents, specifically
3). Is this a common issue with transfer of an administration
4) if there was a mistake, who made it
5) what are the least invasive ways to go about correcting the error.

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Well shite, if a former law clerk says it, then who could doubt them?

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Well shite, an anonymous poster shows his insecurity.

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Do you think a private citizen has a say in what's classified currently?

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If his standing order was once removed it's declassified than it happened while he was still in office. Where did all the Bill Blue Dogs go that should be outraged at this overreach of power?

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Have you seen the affidavit? Because in all likelihood, the NYT article is heavily editorializing the statements made in the affidavit. Keep in mind, there were several subpoenas and several batches of documents in response to those subpoenas turned over to the feds around this time. I'm willing to bet the subpoenas asked for certain documents and Trump's attorney signed an affidavit stating that all classified documents requested had been turned over. The NYT likely took this out of context and ran with it.

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Of course I haven't seen the affidavit.

It is not worth arguing over. Either the affidavit states what the NY Times claims, in which case someone is going to prison, or it doesn't.

We'll get our answer soon enough.

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Well because the document in the article you linked did not in any way support this:

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I can't view the NY Times article anymore as the normal tricks of incognito mode and deleting cookies are not working. I think it is because they've tied it to my Google credentials.

Are you claiming the actual affidavit is in that article and it does not match the description of it in the article? I did not see it but could have missed it as I was skimming it to find the parts I needed.

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But seriously, the FOIA request would be going to the current administration, and they will deny that any such policy was ever implemented and that any such documents remain classified.

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Of course they will. Then litigate it in the courts. Make the courts live with the consequences of deciding that Trump's vague declassification policy is in fact legal. And make the Trump supporters deal with the fallout of such irresponsible declassifications.

I've been pushing for the FOIA request for several days.

There are a couple of caveats that would make this fail though. One is that FOIA requests have to be pretty targeted from what I've been told. The second it that classification status might not be the only justification for legally withholding documents from an FOIA request.

But it is worth a shot.

If Hank ever beats you to a point, there’s a decent chance you have Downs.

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"We never received a copy of the search warrant"
"The search warrant was not valid"
"There's nothing there"
"There's nothing classified there"
"The evidence was planted"

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You forgot, "I declassified the documents in January of 2021 that they planted last week."

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If Hank ever beats you to a point, there’s a decent chance you have Downs.

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First, it is rude to use language like that. You can say what you want about me but let's leave people with developmental disabilities out of it. Anyway from every interaction I have had with you, you are a rude and disgusting person so your response is par for the course.

As for Hank beating me to the punch, I've been working. I respond to posts as I read them. But by all means keep thinking you are a witty person.

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Are you claiming the actual affidavit is in that article and it does not match the description of it in the article? I did not see it but could have missed it as I was skimming it to find the parts I needed.

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There was a picture in the article which focused on an inventory list. One entry on that list was “some top secret documents”. No clue if that is an attachment to an affidavit, but it’s the picture in the article.