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Trump: “Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this!”

John Fea   |  June 9, 2023

Last night we learned that the Department of Justice will indict Donald Trump on Tuesday. At this point the DOJ has not released the indictment. This morning CNN is reporting that Trump admitted on tape that he didn’t declassify “secret […]

Zakaria: The nation’s policy on classified documents and “secrecy” is “out-of-control”

John Fea   |  January 27, 2023

As is often the case, Zakaria makes a lot of sense here: What should we think of the fact that Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and now Mike Pence have all turned out to have classified material sitting in their houses? […]

Why presidents can’t keep their documents

John Fea   |  August 15, 2022

There is a reason why the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago last week. Here is a nice explainer from National Public Radio: For the first two centuries of U.S. history, outgoing presidents simply took their documents with them […]

Donald Trump in 2016 on “classified information”

John Fea   |  August 14, 2022

From The Washington Post: