He probably already has a pardon for his buddy Vlad all filled out and ready to sign.
Actually, while the President is vested with classification authority, the President can delegate that authority. Executive Order 13526, signed by Obama in 2009, delegates this authority to agency heads (like the Secretary of State).
So you’re saying Clinton could just say those emails are declassified, and nothing bad ever actually happened?
No, no, no. Of course not. When Democrats do it it’s bad. A crime, even. Possibly treason. A hangin’ offense.
Understand now?
Have I told you lately that I love you?
Awww shucks… <digs toe in the ground>
You’re assuming he bothers with a password at all – such a stupid useless bother, why even have one slowing you down when the latest rage-tweet is hot to trot?
his password is password - because thats what the box told him to put in - and its ‘remembered’ since he can’t bother to type it in.
Classification authority is different than declassification authority.
And the white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.
Fair enough. The same order also discusses declassification.
I think she could still declassify State Department stuff, I guess.
If I understand it correctly, the real controversy with regards to the classification system is the fact that different departments have their own authority, so something not classified by, for example, the State Department, could still be classified by, for example, the Defense Department. I believe that the controversy surrounding Clinton was a lot of second guessing by other people in other departments; much of the speculation in articles came from “intelligence officials”, for example.
(And over classification is a huge problem in government)
Ultimately, though, she might as well as be dead and gone, as far as politics go. I truly believe that the only people who want to keep her alive in political discussions are Republicans who need their various “scary libruls” to fire up the base. So I’ll say no more, except to note that Trump doesn’t give a fuck about maintaining security now that it’s inconvenient for him to do so.
ISTM that the actual picture is a bit more complex - and simultaneously also a bit simpler, oddly - than this.
I highly doubt if Trump could articulate exactly what it is that HRC did which endangered national security. I think he has some very vague idea that it had to do with emails and a server, but that’s probably about it. (At least on a regular basis - it’s possible that he’s seen a Fox show on the subject within the last half hour that he might be able to add a bit more detail.) So he’s consistently concerned about national security in the sense that he genuinely believes his foggy notion that HRC did VERY BAD stuff which ENDANGERED NATIONAL SECURITY. By contrast, his own actions seem benign to him, and don’t seem to be endangering national security as far as he can tell, and who would know better?
Of course, all the above just relates to the extent to which Trump is a hypocrite. For everyone else it’s kind of moot, because no one should be basing their opinion on what is or isn’t a national security concern on anything Trump thinks, obviously.
We both know perfectly well what this is about. You want me to have an abortion.
Yes. Now go lying down on the bottom of the quarry and we throw some stones on you.
Message received, compadre… the pigeon poops on the highway to the danger zone.
CurtC totally fucking rocks! Everyone else gets a tepid and obviously disappointed “attaboy” for their contribution.
Oh, by the way, let’s talk about Jared Kushner’s friend Rick Gerson:
It’s really the only sensible thing to do. If its done safely, therapeutically, there’s no danger involved.
Put the Airplane! down and look at this:
Looks as though someone might be doing just that:
All of this concern about cell-spying devices assumes he’s not deliberately giving Putin classified info. I’m not convinced he’s actually working as an agent, witting or unwitting, but I’m not convinced he’s not, either.