09-25-2019, 08:24 AM
(09-25-2019, 12:44 AM)bfine32 Wrote: Now I'll freely admit that "politics" often seems without logic to me, but:
We have a right to know exactly what a sitting President said to another Head of State in a private phone conversation, but to show what an ex-VP said in a similar conversation is protected under law.
Many in this country have absolutely lost their collective minds.
We don't have a right to know what was in Trump's call. Congress can request them in the course of investigation, but except for in very specific instances (such as the whistleblower complaint) there is nothing that says the Executive has to provide things. The president's calls are also classified. He has the authority to declassify anything he wishes to, though, which includes Biden's calls. Biden, however, doesn't have authority to declassify anything.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
