Tearing confidential documents, spilling them outside… “We need to block confidential access after Trump leaves office”

In the US, there are claims that US President Donald Trump should not provide confidential information after retirement. Following the impeachment prosecution by the House of Representatives, there are voices saying that the’privilege’ that the retired president had to receive should be deprived.

Even after leaving office, the President of the United States receives confidential information briefings and has access to secrets related to his political heritage. Those who demand that it be cut off are cited because President Trump carelessly handled information from the beginning of his inauguration and that he could abuse it after leaving office.

In fact, if the next Biden government blocks the customary provision of information, Trump is the first ex-president to not be provided with confidentialityBecomes.

The controversy was triggered by an article by Susan Gordon, who served as Senior Deputy Director of the Trump Administration’s National Intelligence Service (DNI).

In a contribution posted on the Washington Post (WP) on the 15th (local time) “In the meantime, there have been no outgoing presidents who signaled or planned out political activities as soon as they left the office.” “I think we shouldn’t provide any briefings to President Trump,” he argued.

The opposition also responded to this. House Intelligence Commissioner Adam Seef of the Democratic Party said in an interview with CBS on the 17th, “I don’t think he’s a person you can trust right now and certainly not in the future.” In an interview with CNN on the same day, Democratic independent Senator Angus King said, “(Providing confidential information) there is no reason to do so.” There is a risk of giving it.”

On the one hand, there are complaints that President Trump habitually torn key documents during his tenure, and that the president’s records have already been lost. British Guardian on the 17th “President Trump seldom cared about the law on document preservation, and had a habit of tearing up documents before putting them away.”Reported. One former White House records manager said “10 records officers had to be tasked with tapering torn documents.”

Controversy over the records followed throughout Trump’s administration. In February 2017, at the beginning of power, when North Korea’s North Korea’s North Pole Star-2 test fired during a dinner with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a “public situation room” was set up on the dinner table and exposed to Facebook, raising concerns about the leakage of security information. . After that, ▶ Controversy about leaking IS terrorist information to Russia ▶ Passing personal numbers to the tops such as Canada and Mexico ▶ Controversy about the leakage of heavy information such as tweets at the site of a rocket explosion in Iran continued. Following the Iranian rocket explosion tweet, then the former director of the National Intelligence Service (DNI) told the New York Times (NYT), “I am confident that all enemies will study the photos released this time.” Criticized.

Confidential briefings after the retirement of the president are not mandatory. Information similar to that provided by the intelligence department to high-ranking ministers is provided, but it has been preserved as a convention in that it is a courtesy to the former president and allows policy advice to the incumbent president based on confidential information. US media reports that the White House has not ruled out the possibility of blocking unprecedented confidential information about President Trump. “We will definitely look at the recommendations of intelligence experts in the Biden administration,” said Ron Klein, chief of staff at the White House, in an interview with CNN.

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