“Classified Markings” Aren’t “Classified Documents” – IOTW Report

“Classified Markings” Aren’t “Classified Documents”

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There is a big difference between a classified document and a document containing classified markings.  As an example, anyone who has looked at the Carter Page FISA application, made public in July 2018, has reviewed a document containing “classified markings.”  When a document is declassified, they do not remove the markings.

You might think this is a one-off use of the “documents with classification markings” lingo, but it’s not.  This language is the underpinning of the entire DOJ/FBI framework that predicated the raid on Mar-a-Lago.   Specifically, neither NARA nor the DOJ-NSD requested President Trump or his team to return Classified Documents.  The DOJ demanded the return of any documents that contained “classified markings.” More

11 Comments on “Classified Markings” Aren’t “Classified Documents”

  1. If whatever the govt wants to do requires keeping it secret from us the people under penalty of law, then the govt ought not to be doing it. Yes, I mean that literally and absolutely.

    I can understand and agree with keeping things secret the way businesses have company secrets. But having a whole body of law dedicated to prosecuting and imprisoning people the way things are now is just plain wrong and constitutes gross abuse of power.

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  2. If you want something explained in five thousand words when fifty would suffice, Sundance is your man.

    Yes, yes, laudable insight and ‘deep dives’, but sweet Jeezus, than man do go on.

    In as little as three thousand paragraphs he can tie the immaculate conception to the birth of the Messiah.

    Meanwhile, the Bible was written.

    Perhaps latter historians will find his minutia helpful. I find it repetitive and tiring.

    I find myself not requiring an Illustrative Text of Roller Derby with Concordance and Footnotes to grasp skates and balls.

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