Space Lasers may be needed to remove so many possible moles. Mark Meadows could be one but the reality will come when constructing the bridge between the Trump White House and the insurrection: a narrative that the J6 Select Committee should craft between the Willard Hotel “war room” and the Oval Office. This bridge had many on-ramps for the Freedom Caucus and the Eastman/Clark axis of the coup, what with that grouping of pardon requests.
The FBI declined to pursue an indictment for contempt of Congress after most analyses pointed to Meadows cooperating with the J6 committee to avoid criminal charges. It might explain why Bannon was charged over his J6 subpoena & Meadows wasn't because an “informer” told the FBI what documents Trump was hiding. , Glenn Kirschner predicts that Meadows will "rat Trump out".
Trump could declassify anything, right? That's what his rabid supporters are telling us right now, aren't they? He had a right to do whatever he wanted and he wanted Hillary Clinton in jail and he declassified any and all documents pertaining to the greatest crime in history.
He gave the order in public, via tweet.
You saw it. You can still see it, if you look in the right database.
So, where are those documents?
Yeah, funny thing. When the public and News agencies attempted to obtain these "declassified documents" via the Freedom of Information Act, Trump's very own Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said:
“The president indicated to me that his statements on Twitter were not self-executing declassification orders and do not require the declassification or release of any particular documents.”
Heh.
In other words, Trump's order couldn't be carried out.
Not without grave damage to National Security.
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For one thing, two of the laws that a search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago this week referred to — Sections 1519 and 2071 of Title 18 of the United States Code — make the taking or concealment of government records a crime regardless of whether they had anything to do with national security.
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In particular, a third law the warrant references was Section 793, which carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison per offense. Better known as the Espionage Act, it was enacted by Congress during World War I, decades before President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order creating the modern classification system for the executive branch.
As a result, the Espionage Act makes no reference to whether a document has been deemed classified. Instead, it makes it a crime to retain, without authorization, documents related to the national defense that could be used to harm the United States or aid a foreign adversary.
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