# Does revealing that the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago for top-secret nuclear weapons documents give would-be defendant Trump some legitimate cause for grievance that would help his case? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 12, 2022, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-revealing-that-the-fbi-raided-mar-a-lago-for-top-secret-nuclear-weapons-documents-give-would-be-defendant-trump-some-legitimate-cause-for-grievance-that-would-help-his-case/969533 "2022-08-12T05:28:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 32
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There’s also the point that it’s the information that is classified, not the particular physical document. That means that if Trump did declassify the documents, they are declassified for anyone in the federal government who has access to them. They could publish them without being in breach of the classification laws. > [@Can a President declassify the document he’s got, but not copies of the same document other officials have?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-president-declassify-the-document-he-s-got-but-not-copies-of-the-same-document-other-officials-have/969667): > > I appreciate classification rules are murky, but I’ve got a factual question: suppose there are three copies of the same document, all marked “topSecret”. They are identical in content. Can the President declassify the copy that he’s got, but not the copies held by the Director of the CIA and the Director of the Defence Intelligence Agency? So he can handle it normally, show it to guests at this dinners, and talk about it, but the two Directors are bound by the classification and secrecy rul… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-revealing-that-the-fbi-raided-mar-a-lago-for-top-secret-nuclear-weapons-documents-give-would-be-defendant-trump-some-legitimate-cause-for-grievance-that-would-help-his-case/969533)._