Notable>>17457995, >>17458001 USA Military Veteran With Top Secret Military Clearance Explains Why Donald Trump Is Still President
pb>>17460272 ABC news this morning (don't know why I turned it on) They were breathless that "Donald Trump took documents and they could be stored elsewhere outside of Mar-a-lago." So your theory, imho, may not be too far off. Its clear they are looking for something.
IMO: Anon, I think I’m close to one possible reason why the DS raided Mar A Lago, and found it in the Brennan Center description of President GW Bush PEADs. For all those who think my theory about the raid conducted by the DS may have wanted the PEADS President Trump signed, Congress has been trying to get a hold of and change the PEADs rules to see what was done. Bush did not share anything with congress. They are still trying today to limit the President’s power!Call to dig
New Documents Illuminate the President’s Secret, Unchecked Emergency Powers May 26, 2022
In 2004, high-ranking staffers in the George W. Bush administration spearheaded a holistic review of the president’s emergency powers. Their goal was to refresh a set of secret plans known as “presidential emergency action documents,” or PEADs, the continuity of government playbook that emerged under President Dwight Eisenhower as a response to the threat of nuclear war. Equipped with the latest tranche of presidential records, we now know that at least some of the most disturbing aspects of early Cold War emergency action documents persisted as of 2008.
Controlling communications At least one of the documents under review was designed to implement the emergency authorities contained in Section 706 of the Communications Act. During World War II, Congress granted the president authority to shut down or seize control of“any facility or station for wire communication”upon proclamation “that there exists a state or threat of war involving the United States.” This frighteningly expansive language was, at the time, hemmed in by Americans’ limited use of telephone calls and tele-grams. Today, however, a president willing to test the limits of his or her authority might interpret “wire communications” to encompass the internet — and therefore claim a “kill switch” over vast swaths of electronic communication. And indeed, Bush administration officials repeatedly highlighted the statute’s flexibility: it was “very broad”
Detention authority The records indicate that at least one presidential emergency action document pertained to the suspension of habeas corpus. An internal memorandum from June 2008 specified that a document under the Justice Department’s jurisdiction was “[s]till being revised by OLC [Office of Legal Counsel], in light of recent Supreme Court opinion.” Examining the Court’s rulings over the previous months, it is evident that this must refer to the landmark decision in Boumediene v. Bush, which recognized Guantanamo Bay prisoners’ constitutional right to challenge their detention in court.
Inhibiting the right to travel Restricting the use of U.S. passports, a reported feature of some early presidential emergency action documents— remained on the table as of 2008. Records generated by the Bush administration’s review highlighted a provisions of law from 1978 that allows the government to curtail international movement based on “war,” “armed hostilities,” or “imminent danger to the public health or the physical safety of United States travelers.”
Triggering other emergency powers The national emergency declared after 9/11 — which is still in effect today and continues to prop up the United States’ military presence across the globe — was cited in connection with one or more PEADs. A national emergency declaration unlocks enhanced authorities contained in more than120 provisions of law. Bush invoked several such authorities, but several dozen others were — and still are — available to the president as a result of Proclamation 7463.
Also missing from the records is any evidence that the Bush administration communicated — much less collaborated — with Congress during its review. We have previously noted that presidents have kept PEADs secret, not only from the American public but from lawmakers as well. This lack of disclosure effectively blocks a coequal branch of government from overseeing emergency protocols.
With Congress unable to serve its constitutional role as a check on the executive branch, there remains the possibility that modern PEADs, like their historical predecessors, sacrifice Americans’ constitutional rights and the rule of law in the name of emergency planning. Congress should pass Sen. Ed Markey’s REIGN Act,…to bring these shadowy powers to account.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/new-documents-illuminate-presidents-secret-unchecked-emergency-powers