Neither the Justice Department nor Office of the Director of National Intelligence could locate a standing order indicted information trafficker Donald Trump said he issued mandating all classified material he took from the Oval Office be automatically declassified.
Bloomberg’s Jason Leopold, who’s using FOIA requests like a scalpel to extract information, previously received the standard “can neither confirm or deny” response, but government lawyers sent Leopald notice on Thursday that no order existed in their records. The notification came after a judge in Massachusetts ordered the agency to reveal similar information in a different case.