Levin lays it out in this fox piece.
“The former president has the legal right to access any and all documents during his presidency, classified or not.
They can declassify anything that they want to, and the very actions alone of taking documents, he can be said to have declassified them.”
Yet, here we are, still hearing lefty rags around the world crying that trump broke the law and must be punished.
Clown world continues.
Interestingly (not really) if you search for info about presidential declassification, you will get a ton of newly published articles all claiming that thsi power is limited and doesn’t include what trump did…
However, if you adjust the search date for things older than one year, you find a totally different take on this.
For example, this article from NBC news:
Can Trump Disclose Classified Information Whenever He Wants?
Trump, as commander-in-chief, not only has the power to classify information about national security matters, but he can choose to make them public.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/can-trump-disclose-classified-information-whenever-he-wants-n729601
and this one, from ABC..
Trump has legal authority to declassify intelligence
Despite the blowback, Trump is right.
ByMARIAM KHAN
May 16, 2017, 10:15 PM
abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-legal-authority-declassify-intelligence/story?id=47436559
h/t Jay3