It has been noted that Conservative watchdog group America First Legal have scooped a secret Obama memo that could torpedo Jack Smith’s claims that President Trump didn’t have the authority to possess or retain classified documents via The Gateway Pundit.
In June Jack Smith indicted Trump on 37 federal counts for storing classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence. Trump faced charges in a federal court in Florida with 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information and 6 other process crimes stemming from his conversations with his lawyer.
Jack Smith filed three additional charges against Trump in July, related to the investigation into classified documents stored at Mar-a-Lago. Recently, the AFL organization filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request against the Defense Department seeking more information about a secretive committee that was created by Barack Obama.
In 2014, President Obama established the Presidential Information Technology Committee (PITC) in response to Russian hackers breaching the Executive Office of the President’s network.
“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,” America First Legal said.
“Unlocking this secret of the Obama presidency is not only important for public transparency, it has clear implications for whether the government may have failed to disclose necessary information to the defendant as part of its prosecution of former President Trump – and this information may significantly affect the evidentiary support relied upon in indicting and continuing to prosecute a former President. The American people deserve to know the truth behind this secretive memo and how it has been used,” said America First Legal’s Dr. Dan Epstein.
