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Originally Posted by August
Presidents build entire libraries from their presidential papers.
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Presidential libraries are operated by the NARA. Ownership of the documents remains in their hands, not the ex-president's.
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Originally Posted by August
Most likely declassified stuff that didn't get it's security tags removed. A common thing among presidential papers.
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Doesn't matter. Once the president leaves office, the records' ownership transfers to the US. Classified or not.
Fifteen boxes were already recovered earlier this year, now FBI saw the need to execute a search warrant. And if they did recover records, that very much shows intent of hiding them.
EDIT: The warrant and what was taken:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...54.17.0_10.pdf
That's a lot of top/secret documents.
Also to add is that if a document is labeled as classified or some other such way, then that's what it is. Declassification is a process and the new status of a document will be added to said document. So any silly excuses like "oh they forgot the tag" is just that, silly.
Further, SCI documents were found. These are generally only accessable in a secury facility. There's no excuse for them being found in Mar-a-lago.
To summarize:
- Trump took documents to Mar-a-lago
- Fifteen boxes were returned early this year
- Trump was subpoenaed in June to return any remaining documents
- Trump ignored the subpoena
- FBI executed a search warrant and found number of classified documents at Mar-a-lago
Good luck defending him!
EDIT2: Oh, and Breitbart leaked the names of the FBI agents who served the warrant. I wonder where that info came from...
