g5000
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Oh wow.The Bill Clinton sock drawer audio tapes case. The court said whatever a President took with him when leaving office is his and the DOJ argued that very fact.
44 U.S. Code § 2205 - Exceptions to restricted access...(3) the Presidential records of a former President shall be available to such former President
44 U.S. Code § 2205 - Exceptions to restricted access
www.law.cornell.edu
You skipped right over the sections before that. That's deliberate. That's willful.
So let's back up, dipshit.
Presidential Records (44 U.S.C. Chapter 22)
(44 U.S.C. Chapter 22) § 2201. Definitions § 2202. Ownership of Presidential records § 2203. Management and custody of Presidential records § 2204. Restrictions on access to Presidential records § 2205. Exceptions to restricted access § 2206. Regulations § 2207. Vice-Presidential records § Note...
www.archives.gov
§ 2202. Ownership of Presidential records
The United States shall reserve and retain complete ownership, possession, and control of Presidential records; and such records shall be administered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
You see that? The UNITED STATES owns presidential records. NOT the President.
Moving on:
From Section 2203:
(g)(1) Upon the conclusion of a President’s term of office, or if a President serves consecutive terms upon the conclusion of the last term, the Archivist of the United States shall assume responsibility for the custody, control, and preservation of, and access to, the Presidential records of that President.
You see that? When a President leaves office, his records are turned over to the custody of the Archivist. The President does NOT get to take our nation's defense secrets to his bathroom at Mar-A-Largo.
Nor does he get to show classified documents to visitors with no security clearance just to impress them.
Now let's look at that truncated sentence you posted:
the Presidential records of a former President shall be available to such former President
You deliberately left out the critical part, rube.the Archivist and persons employed by the National Archives and Records Administration who are engaged in the performance of normal archival work shall be permitted access to Presidential records in the custody of the Archivist;
You see, a former president's records are the property of the government and are to be turned over to the Archivist.
If the former president wants access to the records IN THE CUSTODY OF THE ARCHIVIST, those records can be made available to him for his memoirs or whatever. But they are still NOT his property.
I'm so tired of having to explain this shit over and over to you rubes.
Why is it that hoaxes go round and round in the echo chamber, but NONE of you repeat the TRUTH to each other and save me some fucking time?
Now stop making a goddam fool of yourself!