SECRET OBAMA MEMO COULD IMPACT JACK SMITH’S CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS CASE
AGAINST TRUMP
March 3, 2024 Erica Karlin
America First Legal, a conservative watchdog group, has discovered a confidential memo from the Obama administration that could potentially undermine Jack Smith’s assertions about President Trump lacking the power to possess or preserve classified documents.
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First, PITC creates a presumption that the President controls all information he receives. The PITC memo established the President’s exclusive control over information resources and systems provided to the President. (§ 1, ¶ 2.). The memo created the presumption that information contained on information systems and resources was “EOP information.” ( § 4(f)). Because the memo relied upon the Federal Records Act’s definition of “information system” as resources organized for the “use” and “disposition” of “information”, the memo gives the President exclusive control over information he receives. This is relevant to what a President may reasonably believe about information given to him while in office.
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