Ex-Trump Aides Fear Second Term Crisis Over Secret Presidential Powers
BY PHILIP ELLIOTT Title, TIME
Editor's note: Today, we're highlighting exclusive reporting from Brian Bennett, as well as other recent work out of TIME's Washington bureau.
Locked away in a classified safe on the White House grounds is a stack of papers crafted over decades with the hope that no one would ever use them. It lists the extraordinary powers a President may be authorized to use in the event of a nuclear attack or other massive catastrophe. Among the select few who have been granted access to the nation's most closely held secrets, the pages are known as the Presidential Emergency Action Documents, or PEADs. Some simply call it the "Doomsday Book."
When Donald Trump was in the Oval Office, members of his national security staff actively worked to keep him from learning the full extent of these interpretations of presidential authority, concerned that he would abuse them.
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