POOF, there goes another lie filled DNC narrative on Meet the Press. Much like the Mueller Hoax, the Ukraine impeachment Hoax, the January coup Hoax and the January 6th inquisition Hoax. After a while, even the most stupid mental case would tire of being wrong constantly and lying about everything.
MAJOR GARRETT:
You mentioned your experience with the Bush and Obama White Houses. There's a procedure inside the building, obviously, for classified and secured documents. Is there a similar process off site, for any president? Meaning at a place like Mar-a-Lago or for President Biden right now when he goes back to Delaware?
MORELL:
So there are -- there are things called SCIFs, sensitive compartmented information locations, that are actually approved for holding classified information. I had one in my attic when I was the deputy director. And you're allowed to hold classified there but these are places that are approved by security officers, right?
MAJOR GARRETT:
And if they're not, then they don't follow procedures and they may not follow federal law?
MORELL:
Correct. And you-and you may be at risk in those cases of mishandling classified information.
MAJOR GARRETT:
And Mike, this is a question that circles around this relentlessly. Is there a formalized process for a president to declassify classified information?
MORELL:
Unfortunately not. There are statutes that allow the president to declassify information. The Supreme Court has upheld those statutes a number of times. But those statutes do not outline a step-by-step process for the president to do so. So it's murky. I actually know a case from the Bush White House where President Bush declassified part of the 2002 Iraq WMD national intelligence estimate so Scooter Libby could use that information at his grand jury testimony. And President Bush did that without ever telling the intelligence community. So presidents can do this, right? But there's an appropriate way to do it and the appropriate way to do it is to paper it over, right? To have the president sign a document that says I hereby declassify this information.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment...hael-morell-165043102.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
MAJOR GARRETT:
You mentioned your experience with the Bush and Obama White Houses. There's a procedure inside the building, obviously, for classified and secured documents. Is there a similar process off site, for any president? Meaning at a place like Mar-a-Lago or for President Biden right now when he goes back to Delaware?
MORELL:
So there are -- there are things called SCIFs, sensitive compartmented information locations, that are actually approved for holding classified information. I had one in my attic when I was the deputy director. And you're allowed to hold classified there but these are places that are approved by security officers, right?
MAJOR GARRETT:
And if they're not, then they don't follow procedures and they may not follow federal law?
MORELL:
Correct. And you-and you may be at risk in those cases of mishandling classified information.
MAJOR GARRETT:
And Mike, this is a question that circles around this relentlessly. Is there a formalized process for a president to declassify classified information?
MORELL:
Unfortunately not. There are statutes that allow the president to declassify information. The Supreme Court has upheld those statutes a number of times. But those statutes do not outline a step-by-step process for the president to do so. So it's murky. I actually know a case from the Bush White House where President Bush declassified part of the 2002 Iraq WMD national intelligence estimate so Scooter Libby could use that information at his grand jury testimony. And President Bush did that without ever telling the intelligence community. So presidents can do this, right? But there's an appropriate way to do it and the appropriate way to do it is to paper it over, right? To have the president sign a document that says I hereby declassify this information.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment...hael-morell-165043102.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
