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Believe in the rule of law. this is an opinion that is going to harm american interests, more than she even recognizes. she thinks that she is protecting trump, and it is a issue of status. if im a defensive tierney, representing either a good actor, or presumably a bad actor, it was spying for the chinese, and the government has classified information with using against we to protect american interests. my first argument is to quote her opinion. to say, essentially, there is nothing we can trus...

Notion of the exceptionalism of these that is, but if i am a defense attorney representing either a good actor, presumably a bad actor, lets say someone who is spying for the chinese, and the government has classified information against me that they are using against me to protect american interests, my first argument is to quote her opinion, to say essentially that there is nothing that you can trust about the governments classification system. thats basically what -- thats what i would do if ...

Technical breach we know exists, by virtue of the fact they are classified documents in a place that wasnt secure, or consider the other stuff, the intelligence community is talking about in terms of the damage assessment, the actual dangers that may be faced because names and sources might be up there? >> any unauthorized disclosure of classified material is, by definition, a threat to national security. material is not classified if it is not deemed to be a threat to national security. theres ...

Intelligence operations in the united states, the stuff is over classified. and there is some argument that at lower levels of stuff, that is otherwise existing in the public domain, someone would have testified about it in congress, but these documents remained classified, and sometimes, they dont get unclassified enough time for people, researchers, journalists, they get access to them. that is not what you are talking about in some of these cases. there are markings on some of these things th...

The justice department is pursuing now all do not depend on whether the documents were classified. it is irrelevant. prosecutors do not need to prove whether naughty docking meant was classified to convict someone under any of those three laws. they involve the theft or concealment of government records, generally, classified or not. the concealment of documents, as part of an attempt to obstruct a government effort like the effort to retrieve these documents. also, nothing to do the classified ...

Their classification system. all thats required to pursue a charge under the espionage act is to have information that is relevant and sensitive to the national defense. surely, the information that was found or recovered here could fit that bill regardless of whether or not its classified information. they went to great lengths to distinguish between information thats classified and information thats about the national defense. the two are not necessarily come sensitive, or have to be for the p...

At least, according to the reporting, it is about a broad variety of subjects, and this is like a top secret defense of the information, and the special programs is terrifying from an intel perspective. it really does mean that if the documents were improperly to others, its not really just those with each other, but the source may dry up for good. sources may be gone, and if its a technical source, they will no longer be productive. >> you are in a good position to explain this. i do find the c...

Unsecured and not placed in scifs, et cetera. i wonder, david, does that push back directly, basically undercut entirely donald trumps argument, cashe patels argument that donald trump had the ability to declassify whatever he wanted. the lawyers said, though he didnt argue donald trump had declassified the materials at mar-a-lago but instead patel was a news roar was saying that a little bit later also cited in this affidavit. >> they appear to be protesting too much that the president declassi...

Change, long—term change to the classification of the harvesting waters. each harvesting water is classified depending on the background levels of bacteria in the water in a normal situation. a class means they can go direct to the consumer. the class, the majority of england and wales, they have to be purified in saltwater, sterilisation tanks, for want of a better expression and thirdly, there is c class, where they have to be relayed for a minimum of three months. but they can be heat—tre...

They may even do it before he asks them to do it because they understand what those standing orders are, the standing orders are, protect him, protect this conspiracy conspiratorial culture. but that wont work when it comes to the legal argument that he seems to be testing, or getting ready to make. that he declassify these documents. >> so, all of this doesnt matter? >> it doesnt matter. because there are very elaborate procedures, i was in charge of them. when i was ethics czar. i worked on th...