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Originally Posted by Dowly
He didn't. The documents were kept in Hoffman Estates by the NARA, since it was planned that the Barack Obama Presidential Library would be located there. NARA had the documents, not Obama.
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No, not according to the legal agreement signed by the Obama Foundation and NARA in 2018.
paragrapgh 7 of the legal agreement states:
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7. The Obama Foundation agrees to transfer up to ...[$3,300,000]... to support the move of classified and unclassified Obama Presidential records and artifacts from Hoffman Estates to NARA-controlled facilities that conform to the agency's archival storage standards for such records and artifacts, and for the modification of such spaces.
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https://www.obama.org/wp-content/upl...F-NARA-LOI.pdf
It is written in black and white that "Hoffman Estates" holds "classified" documents and that it is
NOT a "NARA-controlled facilities that conforms to the agency's archival storage standards for such record".
Hard to be more clear than that.
These agreements are negotiated, drafted and reviewed by lawyers on both sides and the language is carefully chosen. What is clear from the legal agreement is that in september 2018, NARA was still negotiating with Obama's team on how to handle the "classifed" documents.
This takes us right back to the original question, i.e. why is Trump being treated different than Obama? NARA negotiated with Obama but with Trump they ask DOJ to launch a criminal investigation?
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Here's NARA's statement from August 12:
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That NARA press release is a joke since it directly contradicts the 2018 legal agreement, but reaction to it does not surprise me at all. Anti-Trumpers will grasp at any straw if they think it will somehow hurt Trump.