14 Jun 2023 11:33 am
The DOJ's defense for Clinton:jerrab » 14 Jun 2023, 11:28 am » wrote: ↑ he did not notify appropriate agencies that he decertified documents so he did not decertify them.
and they are not his personal property.
In defending NARA, the Justice Department argued that NARA doesn’t have “a duty to engage in a never-ending search for potential presidential records” that weren’t provided to NARA by the president at the end of his term. Nor, the department asserted, does the Presidential Records Act require NARA to appropriate potential presidential records forcibly.
The government’s position was that Congress had decided that the president and the president alone decides what is a presidential record and what isn’t. He may take with him whatever records he chooses at the end of his term.