/1🚨BREAKING — A secret Obama memo, the Presidential Information Technology Committee (PITC), regarding control of Presidential records could change everything in the DOJ’s politicized prosecution of Trump…
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/3 First, PITC creates a presumption that the President controls all information he receives.
The PITC memo established the President’s exclusive control over information resources and systems provided to the President.
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/5 Because the memo relied upon the Federal Records Act’s definition of “information system” as resources organized for the “use” and “disposition” of “information”, the memo gives the President exclusive control over information he receives.
This is relevant to what a…
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/7 Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictment against former President Trump, claims “Trump was not authorized to possess or retain…classified documents.”
But Obama’s PITC memo may have created a reasonable belief in President Trump that he, in fact, had such authority.
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/9 These explosive findings are consistent with America First Legal’s whitepaper contending that the President of the United States has absolute authority over presidential papers. Neither Congress nor the federal courts may lawfully abrogate or limit this authority. https://t.co/G7YF1YjTla
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/11 More on this revelation from @dcexaminer @KaelanDC: https://t.co/ZGJ9xl0tTo
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/12 Read more here: https://t.co/zQUjlQN6s5
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