are located. information regarding the retrieval, storage, or transmission of national defence information or classified material any government and or presidential records created between january 20th, 2017, and january 20th, 2021. that s the totality of the term of president. and the evidence of the knowing alteration, to struck shun or concealment of any government and or presidential records, or any documents with classification markings and quote. the fbi had probable cause to believe that there was information at trump s palm beach home that concerned the national defense of the united states or was itself classified material. ates oand they searched the pres for evidence of any destruction or alteration or concealment of government documents, including classified documents, done intentionally to obstruct or impede an ongoing federal investigation. and one fbi agents uncovered at
courts of actually shown, you cannot do that. there must be some kind of process or procedure to show that this is declassified, plus, when that happens, those documents no longer have these huge markings on them, and there s a declassification stamp on the document so that there is no confusion about it whatsoever. it s dates the costs we can be seen publicly. presumably that s not the case, here maybe that s what this urgency gent warrant is four to determine if in fact all these documents, and there s quite a few here, if all of these documents in fact we re properly de-classified and have all of these declassification markings on them, maybe there is less of an issue here. i would say less of an issue because there is still an issue under the presidential records act, because if these are presidential records, trump should not have the metal. this is property of the u.s. government as soon as he is all out of office. but i very much doubt that we
families grief and subject them to possible threats. now obviously we are not putting that up. do you think that do you think that s elaborate? are they got a thing in they published it? he didn t have a requirement to redact the information. but when i file papers that have email addresses and identifying information of agents in my court cases i know it is best in today s world unfortunately to redact that information out. there is no need for the public to know the identities of the fbi agents. if the lawyers for trump want to make an issue of these agents, hey, that s fair game, go right ahead, knock yourself out. but by putting that out there, just like we saw in the attack on the fbi s field office in cincinnati just like we saw with death threats against me, where individuals were prosecuted all because of donald trump and folks like rush limbaugh and other fox news tv commentators who mentioned my name in
was guilty ultimately of a misdemeanor, he step down as director of the cia. there have been a number of cases a very senior officials, including former directors of the cia, i m thinking of director deutch, who got in a lot of trouble because, even though they have these positions, if you access documents outside of these facilities, you have committed a crime. trump s statement was just read on air at fox news saying that trump has a, quote, standing order, and quote, the documents removed from the oval office and taken to the residents were deemed to be declassified. don t have the details on that, i don t know if that s automatically or if they went to mar-a-lago and there were, declassified. but all i know is that there s a bit more of a process involved in that. that is exactly right, first of, all i don t believe her second that that s true because it suggests a bit more intentionality than we saw in president trump. by the, way if you thought that that was told by anyone th
united states? now, cases like chelsea manning whose book i actually helped go through pre publication review recently so that it was properly reviewed reality winter cases where individuals obtained classified information illegally and released it illegally are different than what this case might be and it s important to understand their doesn t have to be any intent or allegation that the president or those around him were going to sell the information or they could to the right-wing media, lecturing media, who cares, or a foreign power. possession of that information in a location where they are not authorized to have it is just as sufficient. and just three years ago, a former and it s a contractor was sentenced to nine years in prison for having a horde of classified documents in his home that, as far as i understand, was never intended to leave that residents. mark, a been watching