Handwritten presidential diaries are exempt from the records act.* Biden turned over all his diaries, he only had to turn over sections which may have included classified info. By contrast, GHW Bush's DOJ helped Reagan keep his diaries out of court - to help squash the Iran Contra investigation. (Later on the advice of AG Bill Barr, Bush…
Handwritten presidential diaries are exempt from the records act.* Biden turned over all his diaries, he only had to turn over sections which may have included classified info. By contrast, GHW Bush's DOJ helped Reagan keep his diaries out of court - to help squash the Iran Contra investigation. (Later on the advice of AG Bill Barr, Bush totally squashed the investigation by pardoning high level Reagan admin officials indicted on Iran Contra crimes. Yes. The same Barr of Mueller infamy.)
I am surprised that no Democrats seem to have brought up that throughout his term, Trump and his admin officials ignored / actively subverted the records act by destroying document and using private apps for official business.
(There was a records management analyst assigned to retrieving whatever torn and shredded papers he could find and piecing them back together. Your tax dollars at work under Republicans.)
*Personal records exempted from the records act: diaries, journals, or other personal notes serving as the functional equivalent of a diary or journal which are not prepared or utilized for, or circulated or communicated in the course of, transacting Government business;
Handwritten presidential diaries are exempt from the records act.* Biden turned over all his diaries, he only had to turn over sections which may have included classified info. By contrast, GHW Bush's DOJ helped Reagan keep his diaries out of court - to help squash the Iran Contra investigation. (Later on the advice of AG Bill Barr, Bush totally squashed the investigation by pardoning high level Reagan admin officials indicted on Iran Contra crimes. Yes. The same Barr of Mueller infamy.)
I am surprised that no Democrats seem to have brought up that throughout his term, Trump and his admin officials ignored / actively subverted the records act by destroying document and using private apps for official business.
(There was a records management analyst assigned to retrieving whatever torn and shredded papers he could find and piecing them back together. Your tax dollars at work under Republicans.)
*Personal records exempted from the records act: diaries, journals, or other personal notes serving as the functional equivalent of a diary or journal which are not prepared or utilized for, or circulated or communicated in the course of, transacting Government business;
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title44/chapter22&edition=prelim
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/trumps-presidential-records-act-violations-short-and-long-term-solutions
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/10/trump-papers-filing-system-635164
https://wapo.st/3IBVrYE