Ok it appears that after Trump allowed 15 boxes of documents to be sent to the Archives, Magoo waived Trump’s executive and lawyer client privilege over those documents so his DOJ could get access to them to try to make a criminal case in front of the grand jury. Now I don’t know how he can do it legally. It’s not your right to waive my privileges. And if it turns out that he could do that then Trump on his first day in office should issue an executive order canceling all Magoo claims of privilege and declassify everything Magoo classified in his last three months in office and then send the feds to Magoo’s houses and demand all records he has.

Turnabout is fair play and in this case would probably lead to actually criminal charges.

And apparently Magoo also reclassified everything in the initial boxes.

Now my thinking of this lead me to conclude that I have not adequately explained the president’s classification authority. Yes it derives from his position at the chief executive. However, you might not know that the present classification system didn’t actually come into play until 1953 when Eisenhower issued an executive order establishing a formal system. Previously there was a concept of defense information but not a formal system.

Now you know that I was the attorney responsible for national security matters for the first 20+ years of my federal career in an agency dealing with nuclear matters but what I never put out before was the first thing I did was research and put together a book containing every executive order on classification up to the EO in effect at the time and then I passed it on to my successor. And the thing that surprised me was that I still remember that it was EO 11652 issued by Nixon and it was close to fifty years ago.

But my point is that all classification authority comes from the president and all the executive orders make that clear! Any assertions to the contrary are pure bs.