John Deering for January 25, 2023

Comes down to basically two things:

1: FAR too many documents are classified at higher levels than needed and kept that way even when their currency is gone

2: There is no reasonably useful chain of custody… and no penalties AT THE TIME for breaking it.

Isn’t anyone keeping a check-out list? How the blue blazes are all these documents flying under the radar and getting “misplaced”?

Baby, you can drive my car and maybe I’ll love you Beep-beep, beep-beep, yeah (The Beatles)

They need to search every politician home & office starting with the most senior.

I wouldn’t be surprised if this were true.

Just to clarify – the NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) is the agency that stores high security and top secret documents. They are not the ones who take or have then without the right to do so. Lately some folks are jumping to too many conclusions and is that not saying a whole lot especially these days?

What has NOT been disclosed is the actual level of classification or even the importance of whatever documents or pieces of paper that have been found. Confidential, Classified, Secret, Top Secret…

I don’t think we will ever be told how important it was to keep the secrets in the documents. That would give out too much information about exactly what they were. The National Archives or whatever agency is most appropriate needs to be empowered to establish a library system for any document that is classified, a review system to declassify ones that no longer need classification, and the ability to recover what has been checked out without a court order. I’m sure that government employees have handled such documents since forever, and probably just wrapped the garbage in them when they no longer were relevant, with no harm done. Trump just created a situation that scared people, since his actions were not those of reasonable adult. He was just a spoiled kid who wasn’t picked for the game, so he took his toys and went home.

Now we know what traitor Trump was flushing down the toilet and why he has a bunch of empty folders marked Top Secret.

Duplication is more of a concern. Who in their right mind needs the originals unless it is some type of trophy. That was admittedly the case with one of the perpa-traitors.

More people can expect knocks on the door, I’m thinking. They probably should just contact the FBI and say “Come on over and search the place,”

I heard a possible explanation for a lot of this. A leader is brought, by some staffer or another, a 3" thick looseleaf binder on some issue or another. One of many such binders in the course of a day, week, year, term or career. The vast majority of it is unclassified, but, in an appendix in the back of the binder, there is a single page with a classified marking. The leader leaves office and some other staffer or another is boxing things up and doesn’t read every page in every binder, just looks for a classified marking on the binder. I guess the argument would be, if anything in the binder is classified the whole thing should be.

It would be easier to keep track of classified documents, if agencies weren’t making the most trivial things classified.

It is now laughable that we lost our minds over the Mar Lago document debacle, and now we dismiss another document debacle as no big deal.

Get them all time in the mail. Something about buying life insurance and such.