White House May Have Broken Federal Law by Doctoring Trump-Putin Video

[Pluvious]

This should be interesting to see how it plays out...

Eliminating those portions from the video and transcript poses a legal problem, as there are laws surrounding how official records are handled. The Presidential Records Act governs the management of :

[D]ocumentary materials, or any reasonably seg­regable portion thereof, created or received by the President, the President’s immediate staff, or a unit or individual of the Executive Office of the President whose function is to advise or assist the President, in the course of conducting activities which relate to or have an effect upon the carrying out of the constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President.

The Act includes very specific instructions for how such records should be maintained, or–when necessary–disposed. Disposal is deemed appropriate if the records “no longer have administrative, historical, informational, or evidentiary value.” It would be hard to argue that an official transcript and video of a press conference featuring the president and Vladimir Putin would fit that bill, especially so soon after it took place.

https://lawandcrime.com/legal-analysis/white-house-may-have-broken-federal-law-by-doctoring-trump-putin-video/

[donkeypoofed]

1. How interesting ! Thanks.

[brush]

2. Blatant attempt to re-write history, in print and on video. No accident since it was done on both.

[Turbineguy]

3. Gee....

I'll bet they are (not) worried.

[Fullduplexxx]

4. Any chance that when/if dems take the house and/or senate

Can this all be revisited and prosecuted

[John Fante]

5. They'll get to it as soon as they're done rehashing Benghazi for the

six billionth time.

[Amaryllis]

16. And Hillary's emails. Have to do taht again too.

[gratuitous]

6. The White House does this on a frequent basis

For example, when Lord Littlehands wants to signal to the sycophants and toadies that This Meeting Is Over, he tears up whatever document he has. According to the Presidential Records Act, practically everything he handles must be preserved and archived. So, whether he does a dramatic one rip or he reduces his briefing paper to confetti, some poor schlub has to reassemble the document and scotch tape the pieces back together.

This administration doesn't give a rat's patoot about the PRA, even for a meeting that Secretary Pompeo claimed just today was "incredibly important." Who would enforce the rules on these bandits? Congress? It is to laugh.

[oberliner]

7. The WH did not doctor the Trump-Putin video

Phillip Bump of WaPo showed that the discrepancy was due to different audio feeds.

[orangecrush]

18. interesting...

[orangecrush]

19. and according to Rachel

On the Russian transcript/video the reporter and his question were removed entirely.


What a coincidence!

[mythology]

8. The Washington Post disputes the allegations

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/jul/25/trump-putin-and-case-missing-question/

Bump said the explanation is technical. The audio at the conference was split between the left and right channels.

"At some point in the middle of that question, there’s a switch between the feed from the reporters and the feed from the translator," he wrote. "In the White House version of the video, you can hear the question being asked very faintly under the woman who is translating."

[renate]

9. That's some pretty helpful timing there....

Right before Trump’s tweet about how the Russians actually want Democrats to win.

[Merlot]

15. Simple, the WH just needs to correct their version to match reality

Oh, wait, they know about it and declined to fix it...go figure...

If they haven't fixed it, you have your answer - it was deliberate.

[Eko]

10. Ha Ha,,,

"It would be difficult to prove cases under any of these statutes, however, given the defense that the changes were not made with the intent to hide anything, rather for some other editorial purpose. "


Hold my beer for about 30 min, Ill be riiiiiiight back.

[Honeycombe8]

11. So what? Like someone is going to do something about it?

Maybe it broke the law, maybe not. But if there is no accountability for breaking the law, does it really matter? No. The White House is now officially above the law.

Banana Republic.

[C Moon]

12. Broke the law? What the hell else is new. Pile it on top.

[George II]

13. Destroying/manipulating public documents.

[Kablooie]

14. Sound like an underling who was ordered to edit the material is in big trouble.

[yuiyoshida]

17. please FBI, act on this...