One of you texted me today that someone on Fox said that VP’s can only declassify documents that they personally classified. Now it only took them a week of saying he couldn’t classify or declassify anything to apparently discover the EO I talked about earlier this week.

And here’s the thing. If someone looked at it with a preconceived opinion, you could say that. Remember the EO was set up with the president the vice president at the top end and all the other peons beneath them. So how could you reach that conclusion because Section 3 which deals with declassification doesn’t mention the vp. Under their view he could only declassify documents he had personally classified because that section said original classification authorities could declassify what they classified.

Ok. Section 3 doesn’t mention the president either! Does that mean that the president can only declassify documents he personally classified. Btw, I would bet that documents personally classified by either Obama or Magoo are few and far between. No it doesn’t because that section also provides that anyone with original classification authority can declassify anything classified by a subordinate, and I believe that given the way this was written, everyone other than Obama was considered a subordinate of Magoo.

And consider that if that isn’t true how absurd it would be. Since Magoo could classify anything all he would have to do is take the documents and reclassify them under his authority and then immediately declassify them. You can’t put forth a theory which makes no sense and we will never have a judicial resolution because it’s not going to happen since Magoo hasn’t even raised the issue. He has not said he declassified them. His defense is the tooth fairy left them