OMFG! What will these -------- think of next?
Republicans foolishly try to roll out the what about Obama' tack
As Attorney General Merrick Garland wrapped up his brief remarks yesterday afternoon, Donald Trump wasted no time in responding. In fact, the former president, by way of his Twitter-like platform, pushed back immediately - in a decidedly Trump-like way.
"I continue to ask, what happened to the 33 Million pages of documents taken to Chicago by President Obama?" the Republican wrote. "The Fake News Media refuses to talk about that. They want it CANCELED!"
Other prominent Republicans stuck to the script. "They shipped 30 million pages of sensitive and possibly classified materials to Chicago, and, by the way, he has yet to return any of it to the National Archives. Not one page," Fox News' Sean Hannity claimed. "So is his house about to get raided?"
Let's note for the record that the Obama-related claims are demonstrably absurd. As the Washington Post explained yesterday:
As was reported back in late 2016, the Obama team was transferring the records to Chicago through the National Archives, which legally owns the documents once a president leaves office. Once the documents ultimately reached a warehouse in Chicago, the Obama Foundation was then due to pay the National Archives and Record Administration to digitize the documents. The lengthiness of that process aside, there isn't the faintest hint of legal violations. There is no evidence that Obama has hidden anything from the National Archives or that he didn't go through the processes required to share and protect those documents once they leave Washington.
This need not be complicated: Obama worked with the National Archives; Trump worked around the National Archives. There is simply nothing legitimate about this entire line of argument. It's not only insulting to Americans' intelligence, it reeks of desperation.
#102
--------------- again. Can you tell the truth about anything?
In 2014
, Clinton's lawyers combed through the private server and turned over about 30,000 work-related emails to the State Department and deleted the rest, which Clinton said involved personal matters, such as her daughter's wedding plans.
Clinton repeatedly said she did not have any classified emails on her server, but the results of an FBI investigation found otherwise.
Of the tens of thousands of emails investigators reviewed, 113 contained classified information, and three of those had classification markers. Former FBI Director James Comey said in 2016 that Clinton should have known that some of the 113 were classified, but others she might have understandably missed. In a sign of the uncertainty around classification, in 2018, a Justice Department report found that the classification markings were not clear.
A key difference between the two
Bradley Moss, a Washington-based lawyer who works on national security cases, said the cases of Clinton and Trump are significantly different.
"Trump took properly marked hard copy classified documents from the White House, shipped them to Florida, and stored them in an unsecured location at his residence," Moss said.
The presence of classified information in Clinton's emails was less obvious.
"The e-mails were never marked as classified because these were communications from unclassified government accounts," Moss said.
In three instances, email chains included information with classification markers. It was never clear that Clinton was aware of the presence of that marked information, or if the classification marking was clear.Any fecking moron can read the above and see that Hillary Clinton never had any intention of putting classified information at risk of exposure to those who shouldn't see it. Donald Trump might very well have been in possession of SAP level information some of his closest "friends" would pay a fortune for - or perhaps did pay $2 billion to his son-in-law to either gain access or keep damning information squirreled away but still handy should he need it for a transaction or leverage. But it's not like a whistleblower accused Trump of trying to give Saudi Arabia - read MBS - US nuclear technology back in 2019 or anything either.
Yeah, Hillary's is exponentially worse. You live in a fantasy land existing off the smell of your own farts.
So... it turns out that even the Pres can't declassify nuclear program documents.
There goes another Trumper claim