It's declassification o'clock, per the president —>pic.twitter.com/ZDZ9GwZC0X
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JUST IN: Asked for the actual presidential directive(s) referenced in the White House declassification-related statement, @PressSec Sanders told @BuzzFeedNews, "There isn't anything else, just the statement." https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/trump-orders-declassification-fisa-documents …pic.twitter.com/9NcLVixrg5
What's that mean? Here's @NatlSecCnslrs' Kel McClanahan on that question: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/trump-orders-declassification-fisa-documents … —>pic.twitter.com/sE0C0s89GK
What I'll be most interested to see is the language around the emails. If the actual order names particular emails that he is aware of, that's one thing, but if he says "all text messages relating to the Russia investigation," that's totally different. In that case...
DOJ will have to either stick by its longstanding legal argument that everything relates to everything else (an argument it uses to reject FOIA requests for "all records relating to" something as overbroad), or it will have to interpret the order, which will undermine it the ...
next time it makes that argument in court. Plus, if it interprets the scope of his order narrowly, a FOIA requester seeking one of these text messages could reasonably ask a court to find that it did not follow Trump's order. Bottom line, I too can't wait to see the order ...
and how DOJ interprets it.
(Shameless plug: For a discussion of why DOJ will most assuredly try to interpret this order as narrowly as possible, I wrote about it last week.)https://www.justsecurity.org/60684/trump-declassifying-page-ohr-records-broader-effects/ …
It sure would be a shame if someone like @JasonLeopold were to get hold of the order & litigate a FOIA request using the exact language. Not a request "for records described in the order," but for "all text messages of these people relating to Russia" or whatever the order says.
The text message part says “publicly release.”
Yeah but in order to have standing you would have to file a FOIA request for I document even if they were required to publicly release it. It's an arcane procedural flaw in the current legal regime.
Sean Hannity knows everything, it's part of their ongoing disinformation/obstruction campaign, "It is truly The Deep State's house of cards collapsing as I've been predicting."
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