Kash Patel, a former top Trump administration official, told Breitbart News on Wednesday that a report claiming classified materials were found at Mar-a-Lago is misleading and that the documents were actually already declassified by then-President Donald Trump, but the classification markings had not been updated.
"Trump declassified whole sets of materials in anticipation of leaving government that he thought the American public should have the right to read themselves,” Patel told Breitbart News in a phone interview.
“The White House counsel failed to generate the paperwork to change the classification markings, but that doesn’t mean the information wasn’t declassified,” Patel said. “I was there with President Trump when he said ‘We are declassifying this information.'”
Patel did not want to get into what the specific documents were, predicting claims from the left that he was disclosing “classified” material, but said, “It’s information that Trump felt spoke to matters regarding everything from Russiagate to the Ukraine impeachment fiasco to major national security matters of great public importance — anything the president felt the American people had a right to know is in there and more.”
Declassifying does not mean shit if the agencies never release the delassed material. After declassifying something the agency that has control of the material still has to review it to make sure it does not expose confidential sources or represent any danger to the U.S. This can be dragged out forever.
Trump also appointed Ezra Cohen as Chair and Member of the Public Interest Declassification Board on Jan 11, 2021. https://transforming-classification.blogs.archives.gov/2021/01/22/president-trump-appoints-ezra-cohen-as-chair-and-member-of-the-public-interest-declassification-board/
"Trump declassified whole sets of materials in anticipation of leaving government that he thought the American public should have the right to read themselves,” Patel told Breitbart News in a phone interview.
“The White House counsel failed to generate the paperwork to change the classification markings, but that doesn’t mean the information wasn’t declassified,” Patel said. “I was there with President Trump when he said ‘We are declassifying this information.'”
Patel did not want to get into what the specific documents were, predicting claims from the left that he was disclosing “classified” material, but said, “It’s information that Trump felt spoke to matters regarding everything from Russiagate to the Ukraine impeachment fiasco to major national security matters of great public importance — anything the president felt the American people had a right to know is in there and more.”
AND MORE :)
So when will that be leaked? (Timing is important!)
and Trump gave some of it to Durahm.
I think, we need to start requesting this info,it's declassified but not getting released on its own.
Dox the Democrat anti AMERICANS and put them on the rope menu
Is this related to the term “raid” msm was trying to stir up drama with about a month or two ago?
If so, that’s 🤡🌎for you. 🤪
Yes. That story went nowhere hahaha
Declassifying does not mean shit if the agencies never release the delassed material. After declassifying something the agency that has control of the material still has to review it to make sure it does not expose confidential sources or represent any danger to the U.S. This can be dragged out forever.
From the article it sounds like White House Counsel stalled the process.
So let’s get on with it.