He just dropped big time in my view. He said that Magoo had no authority to CLASSIFY or declassify anything. Listen you could put up an argument about declassification which would be nonsense in my opinion, but as I have made clear under EO 13526 there is absolutely no way a prescient human being could claim that Magoo didn’t have classification authority.

I still have not seen anything that would explain the fact that these documents were found when they were found. Until someone can come up with a credible response to that question, the rest of the dialogue is just bs. The only thing I can come up with is that someone knew and Magoo’s folks decided that they had to get out in front of the story. Nothing else makes sense to me. The only reason I can see is they suddenly ‘found’ them to avoid blackmail.

And btw I haven’t seen anything that says they searched his Rehoboth beach house!

I am so pissed that talking heads keep falsely claiming that Magoo couldn’t declassify anything and never try to explain why or on what they base it. This is the reason I created this blog because it drives me crazy when bullshit gets passed on without it being true. Sorry but that’s what drives me crazy and gets you my take instead of me throwing things at the TV.

Here’s a few questions that come to mind regarding Magoo’s classified documents problems. First, why is this coming out now? Trump was in a battle with the National Archives about documents. Nobody knew about Magoo’s docs. So why are they coming out now and why weren’t they destroyed when found since no one would know. And please save your voice if you think that is beneath the Magoo crime syndicate.

Next, how will we ever know the extent of the problem. The FBI didn’t show up with a swat team. All we have is the word of team Magoo and you know what I think that’s worth. They’ve now had plenty of time to take things they really wanted to hide and put them in anonymous safe boxes or put them offshore somewhere.

But it just begs the question of why this ever happened in the first place. Many believe that the documents were planted. By who and why and how did they have access to these documents which were created during the Obama administration. So they had to be stolen six or more years ago or maybe they’re not real? Who knows, certainly we don’t and likely never will.

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

Ok here’s the real difference between Magoo and Trump. Trump was and is making an argument based on the Presidential Records Act and his right to declare any of the documents as personal and he is saying he declassified them which he had the authority to do and therefore there is no problem with classified info. And btw this is also still under litigation and so the gnashing of teeth on the left is just political theater.

Magoo has not claimed that he declassified anything nor that these were personal records. I am too lazy to look up if the VP is covered by the Presidential Records Act but he hasn’t claimed so and given that he is pretending that he has no idea how these documents got into his closet more than a year after he left office he has effectively waived his right to claim otherwise in the future.

And just to make matters worse, another bunch was found today!

He just said that Magoo had no authority to classify or declassify documents. Again these idiots need to do some research. I just provided you the information that makes that a lie.

Btw you are lucky to have someone who is actually a classification expert informing your reality with respect to national security matters

Recently on the way to a doctor appointment I had Glenn Beck on for a couple minutes and he said something that was ridiculously stupid. I don’t know if he was trying to sell relief factor or balance of nature or something else to relieve pain but he said nothing worked for him even 800 mg ibuprofen which you can only get by prescription. That may be technically true but I have been taking 4 200mg ibuprofen tablets twice a day forever. Beck can’t be that stupid although I only hear him rarely and I would have to say maybe.

I have talked about this subject previously with respect to classification authority and now people like Bongino and Clay and Buck and Judge Jeannine and many congressmen and maybe Tucker and Hannity have all said the big difference between Trump and Magoo is that Trump as president could declassify anything and Magoo as VP had no classification or declassification authority.

Now at first I thought that might be the case because the Executive Orders I was familiar with never mentioned the VP. However I looked it up and in 2009 Obama issued EO 13526 and I believe for the first time included the VP. I didn’t check any of the earlier orders because when I searched this is the order that was said to be the one that did it.

Sec. 1.3 Classification Authority

(a) The authority to classify information originally may be exercised only by:

(1) the President and the Vice President;

And then goes on to list all the usual suspects and like all previous EO’s provides that any original classifier can declassify anything he or she classified and anything classified by a subordinate and given the language above, I believe that that means Magoo could declassify anything classified by anyone other than Obama. I don’t want to get into the weeds but by virtue of the Atomic Energy Act only DOE can declassify restricted data not even the president.

So the talking heads need to get their shit together and do a little research. Fortunately Magoo and the morons haven’t discovered this yet because they are clueless and trying to pretend that Magoo knows nothing about the documents or how they got to his oxymoronic think tank even though they got there more than a year after he left office and curiously deal with Ukraine and Iran. Where were they for that year?

Ok I saw today that the I think it’s called the Consumer Products Safety Commission is considering banning natural gas cooking stoves because of some nonsense that they might cause asthma and could leak planet destroying methane into the atmosphere even when they are turned off. Enough of the green bs. Crawl back into your hole and leave my gas range alone. Anyone who knows anything about cooking knows that gas is best. Maybe this is just the natural progression of trying to make us eat bugs which will suck no matter how you cook them.