National Archives says it's still missing records from Trump officials

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post

The National Archives has told the House Oversight Committee that it has not yet recovered all of the records from Trump administration officials that should have been transferred under the Presidential Records Act. The archives will consult with the Department of Justice “on whether ‘to initiate an action for the recovery of records unlawfully removed,’ as established under the Federal Records Act,” acting archivist Debra Wall Steidel said in a letter sent on Friday to the committee’s chairwoman, Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.).

Steidel Wall added that the archives has been unable to obtain federal records related to “non-official electronic messaging accounts that were not copied or forwarded into their official electronic messaging accounts.” Presidential advisers are required to forward such messages to their official accounts under the law, she noted. “While there is no easy way to establish absolute accountability, we do know that we do not have custody of everything we should,” Steidel Wall wrote, according to the letter provided to The Washington Post.

Steidel Wall cited the ongoing lawsuit filed by the Justice Department on behalf of the National Archives against former Trump adviser Peter Navarro over failing to turn over private emails involving official White House business during his stint serving in the Trump administration. Under the Presidential Records Act, the immediate staff of the president, the vice president and anyone who advises the president must preserve records and phone calls pertaining to official duties.

Although the latest letter referred to Trump officials, the spotlight on former president Donald Trump and the documents he kept after leaving the White House has increased since a court-approved FBI search of the Mar-a-Lago Club on Aug. 8. The FBI has recovered more than 300 classified documents from Mar-a-Lago this year: 184 in a set of 15 boxes sent to the National Archives and Records Administration in January; 38 more handed over by a Trump lawyer to investigators in June; and more than 100 additional documents found in the Aug. 8 search.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/01/trump-presidential-records-national-archives/

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[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. K & R!

[COL Mustard]

4. I'm shocked!!! Shocked!!!!

Get me to the fainting couch, and bring the smelling salts, dammit! I cannot believe this is true!!!!

[olegramps]

24. I don't think Putin will return them.

[turbinetree]

2. You know in Colorado and in Maryland people were trying to sell documents

to what they thought were Russian spies.....what makes these people so special not to be arrested.....

[I_UndergroundPanther]

31. Really?

Those assholes need to be locked up too.

[turbinetree]

32. Here is what I am seeing....

https://www.kktv.com/video/2022/09/30/watch-colorado-springs-man-former-nsa-employee-arrested-by-fbi-espionage-related-charges/

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/maryland/officials-maryland-doctors-tried-help-russia-ukraine-war/65-357474de-6fd9-4ead-9877-aedf11500ade

[I_UndergroundPanther]

35. My links got switched up.

I copied and pasted them in.wtf

[turbinetree]

36. And there is a orange hair traitor just like those people in the other articles

who have been charged and will more than likely spend time behind bars and they are in jail, but I digress, and the orange hair traitor still running around.....what am I missing.....just like millions of others what are we missing here......

[ZonkerHarris]

3. "No easy way..." means "we have to get warrants and maybe even prosecute some folks."

[Irish_Dem]

5. The CIA has to assume everything has been compromised.

There will never be a way to know exactly what Trump and his pals (including Jared) took,
what they did with it, and if they are still selling or talking about intel to others.

Other countries will be hesitant to share intel with us.

Agents have no idea what others know about them. Who is watching them, etc.

The US will never know what countries have received secret informant.

We have to assume the worst.

The damage is incalculable.

This came from John Brennan, former CIA chief in a video interview posted here on DU.

Brennan believes Trump has stolen classified docs hidden in other places besides MAL.

[johnnyfins]

7. Makes me wonder if tRump does have other stuff...

...if it is sensitive enough it may be his get out of jail free card. What an absolute joke...

[Irish_Dem]

9. The consensus of the panel was yes to your question.

It was a panel with an FBI attorney, and CIA and national security experts.

The documents Trump has taken are the most sensitive documents in our country.
So sensitive that the matter cannot be pursued.

The most we can hope for is a charge of mishandling government documents.

[Lonestarblue]

25. I assume that Trump has already sold at least some of the information in the top-secret documents.

He had them for nearly 18 months, and video from MAL showed boxes of documents being moved in and out of storage, which says that Trump was looking at them, possibly having them copied, and possibly sharing them with club members who could well be foreign agents who have ready access to the club.

He probably has other documents hidden at Bedminster. Given the poor record keeping in the WH, or possibly the deliberately sloppy record keeping to hide document theft, the DOJ may never find all the missing documents. The intelligence community has to assume that everything in those top-secret documents is now known to a foreign enemy. What a mess.

And if another Republican, either Trump or one like him, becomes president in 2024 or later, I think a number of our allies may stop sharing top-secret intel with the US for fear of its secret use against them. They know now not to trust the Republican Party.

[Irish_Dem]

30. He most likely could not resist making millions/billions of dollars, cash from foreign gov'ts asap.

I cannot imagine him sitting on a gold mine for any length of time.
Just too tempting for him and he has zero self control.

Yes it is most likely he has documents stashed in various places for safe keeping.

Yes the CIA has to assume the worst and go from there.

In addition to the documents missing, they don't know what Trump has stored in his head
and is still blabbing about it.

It has already happened, our allies hesitate to share with us.
Too many Putin/GOP puppets in high places.

[Evolve Dammit]

6. "unlawfully removed" suggests something??

[area51]

8. Lock. Him. Up. n/t

[C_U_L8R]

10. What does it take to get a search warrant?

To this non-lawyer, it seem there is plenty of probable cause to search Trump's other properties as well as his cohorts.

[Botany]

11. Why hasn't he been picked up already?

n/t

[Rhiannon12866]

12. +100!

[johnnyfins]

13. Because he has more stuff that is SO sensitive

that this will all get washed over and buried.

Hate to say it but he prolly has "leverage" over the entire United States Government. It's how he operates. His name is very appropriate. DON as in Corleone...

[Kablooie]

14. Because they are afraid it will look partisan

Not to look partisan is of higher importance than arresting criminals.

[Botany]

27. The man has stolen our national secrets, sold or traded those secrets to Russia & Saudi Arabia, ..

... and is an active Russian agent as was obvious from the 1990s & 2000s when he repeated a
1970s Soviet Union talking point/wedge issue that Europe was taking advantage of America by
not paying their fair share to NATO.

The mother fucker had documents about our surveillance satellites in his bedroom closets and his
personal desk and even though Russia invaded Ukraine (for a second time) after he left office I'm
sure Trump told Vlad about our satellites in geosynchronos orbits over the Ukraine. He also sold out
secret agents and their sources around the world too.

He should be indicted, picked up today, questioned (until he asks for his lawyer), then held as a flight risk,
his other properties should be searched, given a trial, and then given what the last 3 people who sold out
America @ his level which is either executed (the Rosenbergs) or life in prison @ the Super Max in Colorado
(FBI agent Robert Hanssen).

Republicans including Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, McCarthy, and Steve Scalise all knew Trump was Russian
dirty.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/paul-ryan-keeps-it-family-kevin-mccarthy-russia-trump
and McConnell was told of the Russian rat fucking of our elections in 2016 and kept it hidden.

[Kablooie]

28. Yep. But to arrest them would look partisan so they are all still free.

Republicans would not have this restriction. They revel in looking partisan but it overrides everything for Democrats.

[msfiddlestix]

20. ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ n/t

[MiniMe]

15. August 8, not only is it my Birthday, it was the day Nixon gave his resignation speech

AND it is the date of the raid on Mar-a-Lardo

[Ferrets are Cool]

16. Is ANYONE surprised at this?

Not me.

[DemocraticPatriot]

17. OF COURSE there are records still missing!

God only knows how many things he flushed down the toilet....!

[sakabatou]

18. Why am I not surprised?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. Donny doesn't want America to know he betrayed us.

[msfiddlestix]

21. Still no arrest, no charges... just wow. n/t

[twodogsbarking]

22. Maybe they are with Ivana.

Dig her up.

[Autumn]

23. He admitted he had more. There were pictures of his people carrying boxes of them into his

other property. No one seems to be bothered by it.

[Snackshack]

26. Of course it is.

DT is an idiot but he is not so stupid as to leave all the stolen National secrets he took in one place. Those docs sat there for months. Who knows how many docs were sold. Kushner did just get $2billion from MBS giving that to DT would have been a gigantic red flag but not to Kushner… what was that for?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

29. TFG has a very hungry toilet along with many very shady friends.

What I want to know - in total - what laws apply here relating to the original removal of the documents, the transporting of them over state lines, and the subsequent lack of proper security after removal from Washington.

Not a legal eagle but I can't imagine it's not against the law to remove classified documents from the control of government security. Many legal red lines had to have been crossed on the day they were removed.

What if a regular government employee had done this? I suspect he/she would be under a jail somewhere.


KY.......

[sigpooie]

33. dig her up..

You know he hid that shit everywhere he could.

[ck4829]

34. K&R