What if President Obama had tried to issue a blanket declassification order? How would the MAGA crowd have reacted?

I'm sure many people here have asked something like this fairly often, but I think it bears repeating many times until we are completely out of the woods with the disgusting President Trump saga. I can't recall ever having encountered such stark double-standards in evaluating a President as the double-standards we are seeing from the Trump-supporting folks.

In this case, I'm reading through something like this article, and my head spins just thinking of the response that anti-Obama conservatives would have had to such nonsense as an attempted blanket declassification order. Even if somehow it were found to have existed and to have been legal, the poor judgment that it involves ... and the massive disrespect for the lives that could be cost as sensitive information is disseminated , and the disrespect for the effort and financial cost that goes into building good intelligence. ..... would we ever hear the end of this from the MAGA faithful if the shoe was on the other foot and a Democrat tried to put such an order in place? I doubt it.

So, why are they willing to stick to years of defending Trump's totally indefensible conduct both while in office and after leaving office?

The end does not justify any old means and it certainly does not justify massive illegality or disrespect for lives that may be lost (or worse) if sensitive and classified information is improperly treated. If you think the end of preventing Democrats' Socialism is a worthwhile goal, then try achieving that end with means that show respect for both the letter and spirit of the law (and no, the leaders of your efforts are not even close to staying within these parameters).

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'Fiction': Top Trump Officials Tell CNN His 'Standing Order' Claim Is Rubbish
Trump's claim about a "standing order" that automatically declassified documents he took home is false, according to many of his former administration officials.
Josephine Harvey
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Josephine Harvey
Aug 18, 2022, 09:13 PM EDT

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