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Jan 30, 2024 • 12 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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/1🚨BREAKING — A secret Obama memo, the Presidential Information Technology Committee (PITC), regarding control of Presidential records could change everything in the DOJ’s politicized prosecution of Trump…

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/2 In October 2014, Russian hackers breached the Executive Office of the President’s network. In response, President Obama created, via executive action, PITC.

PITC includes representatives of the Departments of Defense and DHS, among others.
obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-offi…
/3 First, PITC creates a presumption that the President controls all information he receives.

The PITC memo established the President’s exclusive control over information resources and systems provided to the President.
/4 The memo created the presumption that information contained on information systems and resources was “EOP information.”
/5 Because the memo relied upon the Federal Records Act’s definition of “information system” as resources organized for the “use” and “disposition” of “information”, the memo gives the President exclusive control over information he receives.

This is relevant to what a President may reasonably believe about information given to him while in office.
/6 Second, and related, if information stored on the PITC network formed the basis for Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of former President Trump, that evidence should have been disclosed to the former President and may be relevant to his liability.
/7 Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictment against former President Trump, claims “Trump was not authorized to possess or retain...classified documents.”

But Obama’s PITC memo may have created a reasonable belief in President Trump that he, in fact, had such authority.
/8 Additionally, if the records Trump allegedly destroyed are still preserved within the EOP or the U.S. Department of Defense as part of PITC-created information systems, then other claims in the indictment may be baseless.
/9 These explosive findings are consistent with America First Legal’s whitepaper contending that the President of the United States has absolute authority over presidential papers. Neither Congress nor the federal courts may lawfully abrogate or limit this authority.
/10 The American people deserve to know the truth behind this secretive memo…we filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Defense Information Agency, part of the Department of Defense.


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/11 More on this revelation from @dcexaminer @KaelanDC:

washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/2…
@dcexaminer @KaelanDC /12 Read more here:

aflegal.org/secretive-obam…

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