Thursday, August 11, 2022

Part 3, Why Did the DOJ and FBI Execute the Raid on Trump – A Culmination of Four Years of Threats and Betrayals

The Origins of the Deep State

  • In Part 2, we outlined the specific targeting of Trump that was carried out through the tools that originate in the modern Deep State. In Part 3, we outline how and why President Trump was blocked from releasing the evidence.
  • The motives of the DOJ and FBI are clear, but it's the threats and betrayals against President Trump that most people have a hard time understanding.

The external debate and consternation surrounded how the Administrative State has seemingly boxed-in President Trump

  • The core issue within the debate surrounded two contradictory reference points: (1) President Trump has ultimate declassification authority
  • Yes; however, in this example President Trump is also the target of the investigation; so, (2) declassification could be viewed by elements within the investigation as 'obstruction'.

General Principles of declassification

  • The President can declassify anything, but there is a process that must be followed
  • Executive order 13526
  • Following that declassification process, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, then Dan Coats, the FBI Director, Christopher Wray, and the Attorney General needed to sign-off on the declassification

President Trump is aware of material that he can use to defend himself from the ongoing 'impeachment' plans of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer

  • However, he is also seemingly aware of the issues within the process to gain access to the material and actually use it.

The Declassification Conundrum

  • Because none of the legal linguistics took into account the reality of the actual process for declassifying information, many people were stuck thinking President Trump held sole authority to classify and declassify intelligence without understanding the process.
  • Declassified information is a process, and each person within the executive branch must agree to the process
  • President Trump is the target of a counterintelligence investigation, and could be charged with obstruction of justice if found guilty

President Trump can declassify anything

  • The Office of the President asks for a document to enter into a declassification review process.
  • Officials within that process (ODNI, DoD, DoS, FBI, DOJ-NSD, CIA, NSA, etc) can approve or refuse to sign-off based on their unique relationship to the interests within the document(s).
  • This is where compartmented intelligence comes into play. Any officer who refuses the request for declassification must justify to the intelligence hub; the office of the Director of National Intelligence. If he disagrees with the decision of the intelligence official, POTUS then would have to fire, replace, and hope the next person in the chain-of-command would sign off.

Background:

  • President Trump asks DNI Dan Coats to coordinate the declassification of [fill_in_blank].
  • If he agrees, all of the compartmented principles with interest in that specific document will be asked by everyone, including DOJ, FBI, and possibly the NSA and/or Cyber Command.
  • Within a few weeks, May 2019, President Trump agrees to support Bill Barr and gives him the authority to declassify and release documents because Barr has an investigator to look into the corrupt activity behind the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.

The purpose of the declassification was to facilitate a DOJ review of how the intelligence apparatus was used in the 2016 election

  • However, because the DOJ review encompassed intelligence systems potentially weaponized in 2016 for political purposes and intents, a strange dynamic existed.
  • President Trump carries: (a) declassification authority; but also: (b) an inherent conflict.
  • To avoid the conflict President Trump designated the U.S. Attorney General as arbiter and decision-maker for the purposes of declassifying evidence within the investigation.

The 2019 Memorandum was specific to the agencies carrying the documentation to be reviewed by the Attorney General

  • President Trump did not allow AG Bill Barr to delegate authority, but all agencies were required to respond to Barr's authority
  • The purpose of the directive was to give Bill Barr the autonomy to make that decision and declassify content
  • Much of the intelligence information may be collected external to the IG review parameters (FISA process) and may be released independently as part of stand-alone declassification

In the final part four of this series, I will outline what specific documents are the most likely to have been retained by President Trump.

  • The DOJ and FBI will do anything to stop the release of documents that outline how the system worked to target candidate and President Trump
  • If the broader American public knew what tools and surveillance systems were used, the entire framework would collapse

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/08/11/part-3-why-did-the-doj-and-fbi-execute-the-raid-on-trump-a-culmination-of-four-years-of-threats-and-betrayals/ 

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