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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter]https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1572763428086743040?s=20&t=HXsqspV79oG-JeQueWPuzw[/twitter][/quote]

Certifiably insane. He can declassify documents by just thinking about them. [/quote]

TBH, I think he's right that the president can do that.  But he clearly didn't do that while he was president.  There's a reason his lawyers have never asserted that in court - they aren't willing to straight-up lie.[/quote]

That makes no sense. You can’t have the equivalent of double secret declassification. The intelligence community needs to know if a case agent and/or HCS/asset has been compromised. Same for an entire program. Otherwise you would be open to a massive failure of counterintelligence. Not to mention the lives potentially put at risk. Then you have the added wrinkle if the declassification related to an intelligence operation of an ally, or even the nuclear capabilities of an ally. It would be madness. You would have case officers and assets around the world wondering if the mad king burned them. [/quote]

The president doesn't have unlimited powers but where he does have power, there aren't many checks upon it.  The president can declassify documents.  He should do it through a formal (or informal) process.  But he can show a classified document in a tweet or on tv, if he thinks that's the right thing to do.  The idea is that our presidents are men of integrity and perspicacity, so we trust them to do the right thing.  Probably he can just decide to declassify a document.

But it's clear that he hasn't done that here because his lawyers have scrupulously avoided saying anything like that to the court.  They aren't going to lie about that.  And the 11th circuit pointed out that, for the purposes of the warrant, classification or declassification is irrelevant because they're all government documents and do not belong at MAL.  [/quote]

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