Fact check: Biden did have the authority to declassify documents as vice president

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The claim: Joe Biden did not have the authority to declassify documents while he was the vice president. Our rating: False ❌

as vice president at his private office in Washington D.C. and in the garage of one of his Delaware homes. between Biden's case and the discovery of classified records at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in August 2022. The claim that Biden did not have the authority to declassify documents as vice president is “complete nonsense,”, executive director of National Security Counselors, a public-interest law firm, told USA TODAY in an email.

The Instagram reel provides no evidence to support the claim, as the Fox News clip does not make this assertion.signed by Obama, the vice president is included in a list of"original classification authorities," meaning Biden had the power declassify anything he classified.

 

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KochiSudiksha Sorry excuse for 'journalism.' If you had at least READ Obozo's Executive Order you would have seen that a VP only has declassification authority over materials for which he is the ORIGINATOR. Damn. Did you even go to school or anything?

Lolol you guys really updated your page after my comments but didn’t issue any correction to this tweet? This is why nobody trusts what you report

Your left wing rating is deceitful Article 2 is on the President having his Executive Power. Not many rules with that power If talking about Obama's 15326, VP can only declassify something he started. And there's a lot of rules. Bit of a deceitful point you tried making

KochiSudiksha So how are you going to defend him having documents in his home from when he was a senator?

Did you read the executive order? The only way he could have declassified them was if he was the 'original authority' that classified them in the first place. Good lord, now we have to fact check the fact checkers. KochiSudiksha

How many documents did Joe Biden classify as VP?

This is not a question anyone is asking. Your fact check is therefore irrelevant, unless and until someone shows that Joe Biden classified the documents in his possession.

Which documents, of those found in his possession, did Biden classify?

You are misinformation

You’re really misleading here. 1) he can only declassify documents he personally classified himself. No others! 2) he would need to declassify according to standard procedures - which he obviously did NOT do because the docs are still marked CLASSIFIED. So he still messed up.

What is a job re-writer? He is not writes himself Somebody doing writings He's just fax and copier... 😆🤣

Okay but we're they? If he had top secret documents not declassified but used to enrich the Biden family, then this is the problem. It's what he did with the documents that sucks much worse then what Trump did.

Fact...

So, that means Trump had the authority, too, so this is no problem. Or, he didn’t, and both Trump and Biden are potentially in trouble. But you can’t have it both ways.

Anyone who what’s to know about classified materials and handling please go to this government website!

Lies

Your fact check is rated: Incomplete/Needs Context. The rules for classification and declassification are different. The executive order lists the Vice President as an Original Classification Authority. This is different from those with the authority to declassify. Continued

Lol fact checks rando instagram post.

Impeach this unit biden today

USA is propaganda for the Democratic Party

Not even a mostly false as it should be. Now it's seriously important to know if he classified them in the first place. Will we find this out? Most likely not

Fake news wins again

lol

When the actual president plants a few files just to hear how you want to deal with the last president stealing thousands of files and top secret documents so go ahead and scream prison....

so not with his mind... but he is president now and can do this just to find out how you want to tell us how to handle the president that removed on purpose many docs..

Not in the law books I've researched...

It started in 2003 when Dick Cheney was sort of president… Now if we can move on to the $50K/month Ukraine paid Hunter and the $50K/month Hunter paid Joe in “rent” that would be great! Or are you not doing actually journalism today either? Thanks! DefundUSAToday

Of course. You think the JoeBiden Crime Family cant cover there tracks. Look at Hunter Bidens Laptop. Oh wait that one is covered too.

You lied to your readers for at least 3 yrs. Covid hoax, vaccine hoax, Russian Collusion hoax. Your paper has zero integrity. Not to be trusted.

How freaking convenient. 'under a 2009 exec order signed by Obama, the VP is inc in a list of 'original classification authorities''. Same Obama who killed Libya, armed al Qaeda/ISIS in Syria, began help to Saudi Arabia to slaughter Yemen, and took over the Ukraine govt in 2014.

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Alternative headline: We know this looks bad since we went hard on Trump. Heres how to rationalize it.

how do you declassify a document you deny knowledge of.

Your own words say that he hast to have been on to classify it to declassify it to show us the documents then

Wow …what else you gonna do to protect this guy 😏

OK fine we accept that because that means so did trump. Now how about the $50,000 a month hunter was paying Joe in rent? Why was that not claimed on his tax returns? So is Joe guilty of tax fraud or is hunter guilty of fraud for lies on a federal gun background check?

Yeah like anyone is going to believe your fact check just because you post it’s a fact check.

Really? So there are two sets of rules for officials based on their political party affiliation? Democratic VP has authority to de-classify. Yet a Republican President does not? WOW! Your legal advice come from lawyers whom got their degree at Dollar General?

Yet he tossed them in his garage etc for YEARS.. so spare us the BS because if he did you have NOTHING to stand on in regard to TRUMP.

Oh ok good cover up!! No one believes the liberal media!!

So, the VP did but the President didn't? lololo You guys are a joke.

He only had the authority to declassify documents he classified himself

I need the USA Today to fact check themselves on this one. Where is there any Authority for a vice president to declassify documents? Even if Obama gave him some papers authorizing him to do it, the US Constitution does not give the vice president that kind of Authority or power.

Just by thinking about it.....lol....

Lol! You’re a clown show.

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