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In 1978 Congress specifically granted an exclusive right to former presidents to keep presidential papers, including classified documents. The Justice Department not only endorsed it, but their lawyers defended it in court in the Bill Clinton case a decade ago.
The DOJ argued emphatically that former president Clinton was entitled to keep whatever he wanted after leaving office, including tapes with classified information. A federal judge agreed by ruling that the National Archives does not have authority to decide what constitutes presidential records and that seizing them from a former president is “unfounded and contrary to the law.”
