Trump knew the FBI would come after his declassified documents claiming they were classified. Insert Ezra Cohen Watnick.
(transforming-classification.blogs.archives.gov)
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Crazy stuff. I read somewhere that the President can declass anything.
I'm sure everybody agrees that the purpose of this raid was to stop certain documents from being exposed for as long as possible.
But who is really running the show?
the supreme court has ruled that classification & declassification authority comes FROM THE PRESIDENT (NOT CONGRESS, not the laws, not the senior executive services) as part of the role of 'commander in chief' of the military.
the precedent was confirmed with Clinton keeping memos and hiding them in his sock drawer and later having them found.
all the rules, bureaucracy, policies, and departments related to it, come from past presidents. The current president can change any of it, with a single word from their mouth.