Trump in Florida federal court today as his lawyers argue a motion to dismiss the first 32 counts of Florida....basically every charge about retaining documents.
The main thing to discuss is the Presidential Records Act.
Trump's lawyers boldly argued that the PRA gave Trump “virtually unreviewable Article II executive authority to designate the records as personal when, as alleged in the Superseding Indictment, he ’caused’ the materials to be transported out of the White House while he was still in office.”
Smith has countered by saying Trump simply had no such unilateral authority under the PRA.
But Charge 19 deals with Q clearance.
In their February motion to dismiss on grounds of unconstitutional vagueness, Trump lawyers argued the nineteenth willful retention of national defense information count, relating to an “Undated document concerning nuclear weaponry of the United States,” could not stand. They said the special counsel handed them Department of Energy records “indicating that President Trump maintained the ‘Q’ clearance that is relevant to the document charged.”
In his opposition, Smith called the “Q clearance” argument meritless because discovery actually shows the “Q clearance” went away “as a matter of law” when Joe Biden was inaugurated as president.
That is a supposition, right there. How do you know that Trump Force 1 does not have a "SCIF"?
What does a President have to do to declassify documents? The general idea is that Obama took classified docs to his library. When he did so, WHILE in office (till jan.20 noon) would that mean these docs he took, where declassified by the sheer act of taking them?
This is an absolute power, isn't it? In the past, Trump has directed Barr to declassify the JFK files. Barr goes through with review by lower officials. But was that really necessary? When Trump says: these files are now declassed ....Are they declassed? Are they declassed even when the lower officials did not have their say and did not alter the signs on the documents themselves? Who' s power is tied to whom? Is the Presidents Power tied to the lower officials or is it the other way around?
The Deeps State tries to argue process. They argue that a doc can only be declassed IF and WHEN lower officials have had their say and there is consensus of such a doc being declassed by them. They argue the process and their part in it, is the absolute power of declass.
Interestingly, Q spent many posts pointing to the issue of declass. Remember the meme of nov.2018: DECLASS coming?
We are now in the thick of it.
SAM 28000 and SAM 29000 are technically SCIFs as they are EMP hardened and decoupled when in the air. That said, the conference room on those air frames is fully TEMPEST certified and rated for SCI processing.
Because as President Trump would always fly via Air Force One. Even when he did campaign rallies he used Air Force 1. AF1 has a SCIF.
I see no reason a SCIF would ever be installed on a private plane
No, these documents were not declassified.
The documents in presidential libraries are maintained by the national archives. The National Archives routinely deals with classified information. There is a classified reading room at the national archive in College Park, Maryland.
The documents for the Obama library and the documents for the Trump library are maintained by the national archives.
There are two parts to presidential libraries. One is the maintenance of the documents and this is done by NARA. The other is the museum piece which is done by a private foundation.
Trump did not set up a museum piece but there is a Trump presidential library. The files are maintained at the national archives in Maryland. For presidents who have set up museums, their documents are maintained at National archive facilities close to the museum.
Info on the Trump presidential library can be found here. https://www.trumplibrary.gov/
Here's info on how researchers with security clearances can go to the national archives and view classified information. https://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/accessioning/research
hmmm, it seems we are about to find out....
AF-1 is a designation. Not a plane.