The PITC documents they seek, seem to be about electronic records and keeping them out of the hands of hackers.
In October 2014, Russian hackers breached the Executive Office of the President’s (EOP) network. Months later, President Barack Obama created, via executive action, the Presidential Information Technology Committee (PITC), purportedly to protect EOP information by moving systems onto Department of Defense (DOD) servers.
The Mar a Lago documents were all paper records.
The Memo they point to explicitly says
This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law
which means it's not changing anything about the laws involved in the mar a lago case.
They claim that this law is different for federal records vs presidential records. And that seems a big stretch.
The witness tampering statute’s language places liability on whoever “corruptly” “alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding.”
They claim there's somehow a Brady violation. This doesn't make sense because again we are dealing with PAPER records. The list of documents and evidence have been turned over to Trump.
Am I the only person other than Just Human who gets happy with this kind of stuff?
Unlike him, I get angry at the same time.
The happiness comes from one more way they’re going to have to act lawfully under precedent in the future, though. Every single time, I hear an objection being made to their prosecution, or a defense being made for their unlawfulness, and it’s already all going to be answered through Trump’s persecution.
This is so amazeballs. Are they being forced to do this, tricked to do it, or are the people left running the show just that retarded?
Meanwhile, the whole thing is so horrifically bad on optics for them, I’ve actually gotten an apology from a Democrat.
So I read the op-ed that explains this legal theory.......and it's just a theory.
https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/01/how-obamas-secrets-could-save-trump-in-his-mar-a-lago-documents-snafu/
I'm skeptical for a number of reasons.
The Mar a Lago documents were all paper records.
which means it's not changing anything about the laws involved in the mar a lago case.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/19/presidential-memorandum-establishing-director-white-house-information-te
Am I the only person other than Just Human who gets happy with this kind of stuff?
Unlike him, I get angry at the same time.
The happiness comes from one more way they’re going to have to act lawfully under precedent in the future, though. Every single time, I hear an objection being made to their prosecution, or a defense being made for their unlawfulness, and it’s already all going to be answered through Trump’s persecution.
This is so amazeballs. Are they being forced to do this, tricked to do it, or are the people left running the show just that retarded?
Meanwhile, the whole thing is so horrifically bad on optics for them, I’ve actually gotten an apology from a Democrat.
This is frickin amazing.