First President Trump was caught with classified documents due to the work of the National Archives, and now not only President Biden, but also Vice President Pence have been found to have such documents at their homes. To be honest, the latter two are the ones that bother me most, as the National Archives are supposed to have a checkout list like any other library, and they're supposed to track down when documents are not returned--but in these cases, it appears that they were not on the ball, to put it mildly.
The case with Biden is even worse, as there appears to be evidence that the boxes where the classified documents were found were...the subject of photographs found on Hunter Biden's laptop. This raises the reality that if the FBI had been on the ball, a lot of this would have come out a lot earlier, like "when Biden was running his campaign from his basement." Worse yet, why was it important for the 'ol crackhead to be taking pictures of the classified documents his dad had taken? Perhaps important for Hunter's handlers in Russia and China?
The question comes to mind; is there anybody in DC that takes national security seriously, at least above a sergeant's pay grade?
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My question is: What do we mean exactly by "classified"? I suspect that this whole thing is equal parts serious and stupid.
I admit a fair degree of ignorance here, of course, but even Trump said of Pence (of whom he rarely has a good thing to say anymore), "This is ridiculous, Mike has never done an intentionally dishonest thing in his life".
I don't believe Pence is guilty of much, either, and those with clearances (I'm not one and never have been) note that a lot more is classified than is really big. But that said, we have a process, and it's obviously not being followed--and how much really significant stuff is finding a new home in Beijing and such because we're not following it?
That can be a huge deal.
Why would you assume the classified documents came from the archives instead of from the office at the time of use? -confused- This stuff probably travelled from their desks into their briefcases into their home offices and never touched the archives at all.
They classify things that are *after use* silly, but make good sense security-wise at the time. They should be disposed of properly, but ...
And yes, it would be good if we knew whether the items were plans for weapons or weekly travel itineraries. Doubt we'll ever find out. :p
You don't per se know that it was in a physical Archives building, but you're still supposed to check these documents in and out. That's the system that is breaking down or has been ignored.
Probably ignored.
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