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@PREZ-HILTON
Does it really make sense to you that the POTUS spends his time thinking about and deciding which items are classified and what should be declassified?
Or do you think that is delegated to personnel in the intelligence agencies. Do you think Trump or any other President is an intelligence expert? Would it make sense for the President to declassify classified documents with no discussion, procedure, or even telling anyone else in the government? Does that seem likely to you? A system where the President declassifies top secret documents on his own and doesn’t even tell anyone. Do you believe that is the current system we have under Executive order? Or is this the likely system in place -
The legal basis for the classification system comes from the president’s constitutional authority as commander in chief. Presidents have established and developed it through a series of executive orders dating to the era encompassing World War II and the early Cold War. The current directive, Executive Order 13526, was issued by President Barack Obama in 2009.
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@PREZ-HILTON
The article is inadequate for the question you are trying to answer. Here is a link with a much more complete answer.
Apart from whether there is any evidence that such an order actually existed, the notion has been greeted with disdain by national security legal specialists. Glenn S. Gerstell, the top lawyer for the National Security Agency from 2015 to 2020, pronounced the idea that whatever Mr. Trump happened to take upstairs each evening automatically became declassified — without logging what it was and notifying the agencies that used that information — “preposterous.”
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@PREZ-HILTON
James Risch, R-Idaho. According to CNN, he told reporters, "The minute the president speaks about it to someone, he has the ability to declassify anything at any time without any process."
You dummy - they are reporting a quote from this dummy Senator. That doesn’t make it true.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
That's the day of his firing. Four months after quid pro quo.
JC you idiot, the article by The NY Times was published the day he got fired. The article reports how Shokin was believed to be corrupt since he was appointed back in 2015.
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@PREZ-HILTON
You do know that the president can just declassify stuff on a whim. This came up previously when a president accidentally stated confidential information out loud, so it is really stupid to think he didn't just on a whim declassify the files he took as he left office. He doesn't have to do a stroke of a pen or anything like that, the president can just declassify whatever the hell he wants whenever he wants to.
That’s a lie. There is a process that has to be followed and it has to be documented. Don’t be an idiot.
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@sadolite
I don't even know why Trumps home was raided nor will I ever.
Exercise your critical thinking skills. Read and be careful about where you get your information.
FOX News, The Epoch Times, talk radio, blogs, etc. are NOT credible sources of information. Don’t be a dummy!
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@Greyparrot
We will never see the affidavit because the FBI is above the 4th amendment.
You’re an idiot. The FBI is enforcing the law. Trump, on the other hand is a crook.
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@Public-Choice
It was a transition team meeting.
If you are talking about the meeting in Trump Tower with Russians you are wrong. This happened during the campaign.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Why did they want him gone and when?
Since his appointment a year ago, (2015) Mr. Shokin had been criticized for not prosecuting officials, businessmen and members of Parliament for their roles in corrupt schemes during the government of former President Viktor F. Yanukovych. He also did not press cases for sniping by the police and opposition activists during the street protests in 2014 that killed more than 100 people and wounded about 1,000.
The United States and other Western nations had for months called for the ousting of Mr. Shokin, who was widely criticized for turning a blind eye to corrupt practices and for defending the interests of a venal and entrenched elite. He was one of several political figures in Kiev whom reformers and Western diplomats saw as a worrying indicator of a return to past corrupt practices, two years after a revolution that was supposed to put a stop to self-dealing by those in power.
NY Times, 3/29/16
In July 2015, shortly after his appointment, reformist minority member Yehor Soboliev advanced a motion to dismiss Shokin for corruption, gaining 127 of the required 150 signatures including several members of the ruling parties.[56] Representatives of the EU and the United States pressed Poroshenko for his removal,[2] as did the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.[3]
Wikipedia
I mean all you’ve got to do is read. Read and use critical thinking skills
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@ADreamOfLiberty
They did not, they asked for reform in the office he headed 2 months after the quid pro quo. Don't exaggerate. They did not mention him by name, for all you know they didn't even know his name. Senators don't have their own private intelligence agencies, they eat reports given to them by the likes of the US ambassador to Ukraine?
Bullshit. The U.S. State Department, the bi-partisan committee of 8 Senators, and our allies in Europe all wanted Shokin gone. It was not some plot by Biden. Read the newspapers dummy!
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@Greyparrot
Lol, that's not who she was referencing and you know it. Another disingenuous comment.
The quote is right there for you to read, but you call an accurate description of her quote a “disingenuous comment”.
Because like Trump, you are willing to lie in the face of the truth. You think willful ignorance makes it not a lie.
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@Greyparrot
Him- She was specifically talking about the racists and the misogynistsYou- that's not who she was referencing and you know it
Speaking at a fundraiser in New York City on Friday, Hillary Clinton said half of Donald Trump’s supporters belong in a “basket of deplorables”characterized by “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic” views. The quote was:
“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” Clinton said. “The racist, sexist, homophobics, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”
Grey Parrot you are a poorly informed citizen. A typical. Trump supporter - dumb and proud to be so. Of course liberals look down on Trump supporters.
How can we not? You are racist, stupid, uneducated, incurious, and bigoted people.
In reality, she was probably being generous when she said it was only half of Trump supporters are deplorable. It’s probably more like 80%. And she left out stupid.
In the Information Age, ignorance is a choice.
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@Greyparrot
Like I said, racists are just people you don't like since you have no way of proving Hillary isn't a racist.
The same way you can’t prove you’re not a child molester.
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@Greyparrot
Hilary is not a racist for calling racists deplorable.
How do you know she wasn't?
Because racists are deplorable. I noticed you refused to say that. So you are likely not opposed to racism or maybe you’ll say racism doesn’t exist.
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@Greyparrot
That's the definition of a racist. Someone you do not like.
Your statement is incoherent.
Perhaps you are thinking of the word bigot. Someone who is intolerant of people who are different.
Hilary is not a racist for calling racists deplorable.
Is Hilary a bigot for calling racists deplorable. Maybe. Technically. But that’s not really how the word bigot Is used.
A person who is intolerant of intolerant people is not themself intolerant. The intolerance has to be UNREASONABLE to fit the definition.
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@Greyparrot
Nice deplorable speech. Hillary would have been proud.
Do you think racists are deplorable?
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@Greyparrot
Biden approval in the 30 percentiles. Only a crazy man thinks that number isn't because of a valid reason.
95% of voters are low information voters. Most Americans have no idea what is going on - in goods times or bad. They are like leaves being blown around by the wind. They don’t like it when things cost more. Well the fastest way for things to cost less is for some Americans to be unemployed. higher unemployment means less demand. Less demand means lower prices. Of course you can have strong demand if supply can keep up, but when supply comes from China and China is in lockdown, (and Ukraine is at war) supply is inadequate so prices go up, unless we can have some Americans ( you know, those other people) lose their jobs.
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@Greyparrot
Reclaimed. You don't produce jobs in a recession.
Trump lost the jobs. Biden got them back. By one definition we are in a recession now even though we are adding 500,000 jobs a month.
Many said he was already dead, and so what, the Taliban owns Kabul. Thanks Joe.
Trump maybe thought he was dead, but Trump is a dummy. Biden found him and killed him.
Trump signed the deal to leave Afghanistan (and release 5000 Taliban prisoners up front) Thanks dummy
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@Greyparrot
Record amounts of death with increased lockdowns and mandates (some unconstitutional)
Nonsense. 1 million Americans died of Covid. Is that the record amount of deaths you mean?
After quarantining those jobs and mandating people to get fired for not taking a drug that the CDC now says you never had to take anyway.
The CDC said no such thing. However, there was an acknowledgment that if Trump had done a better job we could have greatly reduced the number of deaths in the U.S. “There were about 100,000 deaths that came from that original surge. All of the rest of them, in my mind, could have been mitigated or decreased substantially.”
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@Greyparrot
someone who turned the country into a shithole the last 2 years.
Covid-19 stopped after being botched by Trump
3.5 % unemployment.
Record GDP growth for 2021
Record number of jobs produced
Killed Bin Laden’s replacement
Ended the War in Afghanistan
The only thing that makes this country a shithole is Republicans and rural areas.
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@ILikePie5
And Trump is in the process of getting rid of the constitution too. Yay America, you were so wise to vote for a draft dodging, tax chiseling, wife cheating, pathological liar, who only thinks of himself.
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@Greyparrot
I didn't know until I read the wiki page, but on November 13, 2021, the Wyoming GOP Central Committee voted 31–29 to no longer recognize Cheney as a member of the party.I never heard that on any news outlet, CNN or Fox.
Try reading a newspaper. It’s what responsible adult citizens in America have been doing for hundreds of years.
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@Greyparrot
I guess you kinda need draft dodgers today when you have people like the Cheneys lying about WMD to start a war in Iraq over oil.
Hey dummy, we haven’t had a draft in this country since 1975.
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They chose a draft dodging liar over democracy.
Liz Cheney was consumed by the monster she and her father helped to create - ignorance. They played to the ignorant masses and they were attacked by the ignorant masses. Dick Cheney lied about WMDs in Iraq and Liz Cheney supported Donald Trump initially. Now they both have been left at the side of the road, beaten and bloodied, and no one will stop to help them.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
I don't personally know, (who appointed the FBI leadership) nor do I care.
Unbelievable! The ignorance found in these posts is staggering.
Considering the revolving door Trump had on the White House with an extraordinary rate of turnover (remember all his Generals who resigned) Trump has shown he isn’t fit to lead anything of consequence.
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@sadolite
So even as an idiot, you admit that Trump has not created 500 profitable businesses?
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@Double_R
And not for nothing but I notice you continue to keep blaming everything on this imaginary deep state bogeyman MAGA world concocted. Do you have any evidence of who is in this deep state and what they have done, you know, actual evidence, or do you find it logically valid to just slide them in wherever it is convenient?
they will slide them whenever it’s convenient. Amazing the Deep State wasn’t available to stop Trump in 2016. I guess they were sleeping.
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@Double_R
I don’t think these guys deserve such a complete and thoughtful response. It’s impossible to counter nonsense with facts. Sometimes asking questions can provide more light than offering answers. Maybe they will see the light if they answer your questions honestly.
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@TWS1405
That being said, I saw far more "advantages" and "special treatment" for people of color in the Army than any given towards whites.
Hmmm, what percentage of the officers in the Army were black?
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Then I hope they find jobs where the upper management aren't captured by the deep state.
But didn’t Trump himself appoint the upper management of the FBI?
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@sadolite
Yes, but I’m trying to understand how you could be so obtuse in your arguments. It’s important for the country to learn these things. Understanding you could be a breakthrough for the country and its return to reason and normalcy.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Your bubble is so complete you aren't even aware... sad
Look, it's a real credit to this country that a guy like you can even survive. In many other countries you would have starved to death, died of exposure or been put in an institution. For someone with your intellect to have made it this far is an amazing success story of this country over natural selection.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
You can call me a cook
Ok, you’re a cook, and a kook, and an idiot.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
As far as I am concerned there were no crimes.
Well that’s because you’re an idiot.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
rofl, the Jan 6 committee is the laughing stock of the free world.
The only that that is a laughing stock to the free world is Trump and his supporters - Asking how can so many Americans be that stupid?
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@oromagi
I think illegal campaign contributions should be higher up on the priority list of anti-American criminal behavior.
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@TWS1405
In September 2019, Knowles called teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg "a mentally ill Swedish child" on the Fox News program The Story. Fellow segment guest and Democratic Party activist Christopher Hahn replied, "You're a grown man and you're attacking a child. Shame on you." Knowles responded, "I'm not. I'm attacking the Left for exploiting a mentally ill child."[17] Hahn returned, "Relax skinny boy, I got this." Knowles promptly added, "She is mentally ill. She has autism. She has obsessive–compulsive disorder. She has selective mutism. She had depression." The network apologized for Knowles's statement by saying his comment "was disgraceful—we apologize to Greta Thunberg and to our viewers." Knowles did not apologize and Fox said it had "no plans" to have him on again in the future,[18][19] but the channel welcomed him back shortly thereafter.
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@sadolite
Why did you post all those real estate projects that Trump doesn’t own? Did you really believe Trump owned all those buildings because his name was on it?
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@TWS1405
didn't hear that from Trump, you arrogant presumption little jar head.I heard it on a pundit's podcast...Michael Knowles while working in the yard.Haven't been online to verify the veracity of it, but I see the left is in full damage control to cover up for Obama.
Now, now, don’t get excited LCpl. Just because you listen to podcasts to get your “facts” doesn’t mean you’re a total idiot. It just means you’re a moron. Plus the fact you would repeat something like that without trying to verify its authenticity, also shows you are a moron.
But you have heard a lot of things from Trump over the years no doubt, and that’s why you have such poor knowledge of facts. It’s a failure to exercise critical thinking skills. Do you know what those are?
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@sadolite
- Trump Towers Atlanta: project foreclosed and cancelled.[201][202]
- Trump Tower: empty lot in Philadelphia, filed for bankruptcy as of January 2013 to prevent imminent foreclosure.[203]
- Trump International Hotel and Tower Waikiki Beach Walk: Completed in November 2009 with 462 hotel-condominium units.
- Trump International Hotel & Residence: was a proposed real estate development in Phoenix, Arizona, that was cancelled on December 21, 2005.
- Trump International Hotel and Tower: New Orleans (Project slated to begin construction during the first quarter of 2007). "Declared dead in July 2011 after the location land was foreclosed on and sold at auction".[citation needed]
- Trump International Hotel and Tower Chicago: Completed in early 2009 (Opened to public January 30, 2009). Cost of construction was about $847 million.[204]
Are you aware Trump often just license his name to projects that he does not own and does not participate in actual construction?
I’m sure many of the buildings you listed are not his. And many projects you listed were failed ventures. Are you even reading the stuff you are posting from Wikipedia? And you wonder why I think you’re an idiot.
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@oromagi
all of their crimes (except D'Souza) are pretty fucking anti-American.
I agree with everything you said about the FBI. BUT, You don’t think illegal campaign contributions are anti-American? If the people don’t have faith in our electoral process the country is doomed. It’s already happening as we saw on January 6.
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@sadolite
Ya, Trump is an idiot, what have you done besides call people you don't know idiots?
I didn’t inherit 400 million dollars you idiot.
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@sadolite
Like I said, Real Estate is one business Trump is in.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
No, I'm saying republicans didn't commit it.
You believe this because you are a Wack job.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
You see, like the BLM advocate, we have an alternative theory as to why the agents of the state were attacking.
That’s because you have TDS, and you are racist or at least ambivalent about racism. Republicans are the party of White Grievance and White Fragility.
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@cristo71
So you’re not able to identify sarcasm I see.
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Trump himself is now considered a flight risk and has had his passports taken away by the FBI.
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Let’s see if we can make a list. It’s a long list.
Dinesh D’Souza - Plead guilty to making illegal campaign contributions. He returned the favor to Trump with the pro-election conspiracy movie 2000 mules.
General Michael Flynn - After Trump couldn’t get FBI Director James Comey to “let it go” and pledge “loyalty” Flynn plead guilty to lying to the FBI about his conversations with Russians. Before his sentencing hearing, Trump pardoned Flynn.
Steve Bannon - In August 2020, Bannon and three others were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering in connection to the We Build the Wall campaign. The defendants allegedly enriched themselves, despite promising that all contributions would go to building a wall. Bannon pleaded not guilty and was pardoned by Trump before his trial date. In 2022, Bannon was convicted of contempt of Congress and is awaiting sentence.
Paul Manafort - Tax fraud, obstruction of justice.
Roger Stone - Stone was convicted on all charges (lying to Congress and witness tampering),[207][208] but on July 10, 2020, his federal prison sentence was commuted by President Trump.[209] Asked for a comment after Bannon himself was arrested on August 20, 2020, Stone replied “Karma is a bitch…
Sheriff Joe Arpio - After a judge held Arpio in contempt of court Trump pardoned him.
Scooter Libby - Obstruction of Justice, lying to the FBI, perjury.
Congressman Duncan Hunter - conspiracy to commit offenses, campaign finance laws.
Charles Kushner - His son-in-law’s father who was prosecuted by Chris Christie. Fraud and perjury.
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Texas crude is down to $89 a barrel and gas prices are dropping fast. Of course if Biden made gas go up, he now deserves the credit for making it go down.
Oh what will Republicans do if their prayers for runaway inflation go unanswered?
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