https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-documents/
the claim that federal law does not give vice presidents the power to declassify government documents, and reserves that authority for presidents, is false.
Under a 2009 Obama-era executive order titled "Classified National Security Information" the vice president does have the power to declassify documents while they're in office. The order states: "The authority to classify information originally may be exercised only by: (1) the President and the Vice President [...]," as well as "agency heads and officials designated by the President."
Seems like a ticket for mayhem. Without coordination, a VP could declassify something the President wanted kept secret.
ReplyDeleteWow at least you acknowledge that a vp can declassify - as opposed to the standard republican claim that only president can
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thedailybeast.com/house-oversight-chair-james-comer-clueless-over-how-trumps-docs-mess-is-different?ref=home
This must be so hard for you. All this time with Trump and his documents and then it turns out Biden was stashing them too. Oh, but he would never, ever do that for bad reasons.
ReplyDeleteSource? Who said he was stashing them - Trump claimed=d he was merely taking what was rightfully his - Biden never claimed he took them
ReplyDeleteNever took them. Right, they just innocently wandered under their own power from their rightful place to his offices and home. Walked by themselves, yes they did!
ReplyDeletetrump said he took them while it is not known how Bden's got there
ReplyDeleteYou have a source that says Biden took these documents?
Your defence is shakier and shakier. Seriously, consider the obvious. A whole bunch of important documents suddenly are found in Biden's private posession. What's your defence? There's no proof he took them! Well how did they get there? Oh I know, Trump took them and planted them to make him look guilty!
ReplyDeleteThe argument can be made that President Donald Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents is a much more egregious violation of the law.
ReplyDeleteBut President Joe Biden's possible crime is really bad in its own right, not from the criminal side necessarily but for what it says about his character.
President Trump's playing fast and loose with the rules while he was in the White House was his modus operandi. It finally caught up.with him after he left office.
But Joe Biden was portrayed to the public as the elected official known for respecting the way things are done in Washington. The seemingly cavalier handling of classified documents undercuts this whole carefully crafted image.
It's not hard to spot classified documents. Reportedly they have special markings on them. Yet all these documents, some which I'd guess were handled by multiple staffers or employees of then Vice President Biden, indicate a total disregard for the basic and well known rules and regulations regarding the handling of secret information!
Joe Biden has been exposed for being uncaring. Sure he's doing all he can to fix things -- but only after he was caught.
Again, it's not hard to avoid taking classified documents home...but the effort to ensure everything was done right was apparently never made.
Are you serious!? Ever hear that people have assistants?
ReplyDeleteYou're so desperate. So now it's Biden's assistants, without his instruction or even his knowledge, who took these documents and illegally stashed them off site?
ReplyDeleteWow ! What crime are you accusing Biden to have committed?
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