I suspect that he did try. You have to understand that the division within gov agencies is far more partisan than even out here in the civilian world. Every single person in the chain is a potential obstacle. Its not like all of the juicy files are just sitting together in some file cabinet somewhere. Really try to imagine the process of collecting and declassifying a laundry list of documents memory holed by numerous secretive swamp laden agencies. He did wait far too long though.
You are either young, or have seen too many movies. Where? Where do you march these Marines into? These would be files held by numerous different agencies? Where do they keep them? Do you know? How would he know? Generally, when you are POTUS, people comply. This is the first case in history where there is a civil war happening within a government of this scale. Really put yourself in that situation. Imagine going into the biggest deepstate beaurocracy in the history of the world, and demanding that someone produce documents; from exactly where you don't know. You could go through endless levels of people stalling, which is exactly what happened... until the clock ran out.
I suspect that he did try. You have to understand that the division within gov agencies is far more partisan than even out here in the civilian world. Every single person in the chain is a potential obstacle. Its not like all of the juicy files are just sitting together in some file cabinet somewhere. Really try to imagine the process of collecting and declassifying a laundry list of documents memory holed by numerous secretive swamp laden agencies. He did wait far too long though.
You are either young, or have seen too many movies. Where? Where do you march these Marines into? These would be files held by numerous different agencies? Where do they keep them? Do you know? How would he know? Generally, when you are POTUS, people comply. This is the first case in history where there is a civil war happening within a government of this scale. Really put yourself in that situation. Imagine going into the biggest deepstate beaurocracy in the history of the world, and demanding that someone produce documents; from exactly where you don't know. You could go through endless levels of people stalling, which is exactly what happened... until the clock ran out.