Kash Patel has already announced that he's a witness to Donald Trump's suspected theft of documents

[kpete]

I'm really grateful that Kash Patel has already announced that he's a witness to Donald Trump's suspected theft of documents that belonged to the American taxpayer.

Way to make things easy for The Deep State™, Kash!

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Link to tweet

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[Fiendish Thingy]

1. It's still a violation of the PRA regardless of classification status

3 years in prison and prohibited from holding federal office.

[Dave says]

11. Is that 3 years per count?

So if there are 300 stolen documents, tfg can do 900 years in prison?

That! would be justice.

[MagickMuffin]

2. Since when does a president decide to declassify documents?

Is this another one of the instances where he thinks he can do whatever he wants? It certainly appears that way.

[Effete Snob]

12. The president has the absolute authority to declassify documents

You think there is someone else in charge of the executive branch that can say "No, you can't do that?"

The point of the OP is that the process wasn't followed, but the president can declassify any damn thing he or she wants.

Do you recall JFK getting arrested for allowing disclosure of the Cuban missile site photos, or Jimmy Carter getting arrested for disclosing the existence of stealth aircraft?

Being able to declassify information is inherent among the things the president can do.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

3. I've been wondering who helped Trump identify, amass, and box the documents to steal.

Ol' Kash just stepped to the head of the line of likely accomplices..

[RAB910]

4. why am I seeing anti-American false right-wing propaganda on DU? Why is it being upvoted?

[Autumn]

10. Because it's informative.

[lanlady]

5. Nice try, Kash

If the documents are marked as classified, they're still classified, no matter what magic wand Trump thinks he wove.

by the way, Kash, what security clearance did you have at the time? Were you cleared to view information at the highest level of classification?

[Raven123]

6. Be specific, Kash. Which documents are publicly accessible?

[Cracklin Charlie]

7. Does declassifying the documents mean he owns them?

Declassified documents still belong to the government. He doesn’t get to walk out with US Government property, and take said property to his house.

[niyad]

8. So WHY have we not seen these documents if that was his excuse?

[Autumn]

9. I'm an American tax payer, I didn't get to read them. But I doubt I have enough money to peek

at them.

[Hortensis]

13. Spin, spin, spin.

Worth pointing out, though, that this particular spin can work on the anti-government populist and/or conspiracist left as well.