Thoughts on the Mar-a-Lago Search and the President’s Classification and Declassification Authority

Charlie Savage’s piece “Presidential Power to Declassify Information, Explained,” published yesterday in the New York Times, is an excellent and informative writing on the classification authority and how it might impact a potential criminal case against former President Donald Trump for wrongful possession at Mar-a-Lago of documents containing classified and highly sensitive information.

As someone who for a time handled, read, created and relied upon classified documents on a daily basis, I offer these additional thoughts:

First, it is important to note that documents the

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