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I decided to search my garage this morning to make sure there were no classified documents in my garage. To my great relief, I didn’t find any.
Unfortunately, the Corvette I was hoping to find in the garage wasn’t there.
I can also assure any number of miscreants and ne’er do wells I shredded my old police notebooks that I had to keep for seven years per state requirements a long time ago.
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You have to be on your toes. People were always slipping classified documents into my briefcase while I wasn’t looking.
Me, too, man.
Presidential material right here.
Your note here made me uneasy, Not having a garage I had assumed I was in the clear but then remembered I do have a 40 foot container with storage and files – so checked in just in case. I will continue to do so on a regular basis since it seems that such docs seem to have a mind of their own and deposit themselves at will.
I was able to review some 30 years of game plans as I checked thru the boxes – if anyone is curious as to what defense North Texas State was running in 1979, give me a call, I can help you out
I’m also guessing that your team of lawyers have not told you not to ask about unclassified documents not in your neighbor’s garage. What DO you have to hide?
I blame Sandy Berger.
One handy burglar.
Dang. My TS expired years ago but I had no idea my garage had to be a SCIF.
I once had a notebook in which I had just completed some calculations taken by a bird colonel and classified on the spot above my level to know the answer anymore.
If I had known the Federal Government was going to tuck it into the crate next to the one where they have the Ark of the Covenant, I would have used my good pen.
I still have mine for some reason. Good luck deciphering the handwriting in them.
So you checked your garage, but what about locked cabinets or closets? Huh?
It ain’t funny!
We can rest assured that our adversaries now have all of our secrets generated since Hillary lost he post as Secretary of State and the adversaries lost that direct line to our government operations and plans.
It is past time we stopped laughing at Biden and his antics. He has been corrupt and incompetent his entire career, he has always put himself and his family above the interests of the nation he supposedly serves.
Why should he be concerned about protecting the secrets of a country he cares about only in terms of how he can personally profit from it?
I hear you, but I think mockery is still in order in this case. You are correct though that this must go beyond mockery.
I do wonder if these documents were “found” as part of the Hunter Biden investigation. I forget where I read it, but Hunter’s emails contained references to the think tank and the UPenn office. I am not saying I think the documents are directly related to Hunter’s pay-for-play behavior (although they certainly could be), but rather that perhaps the feds served a subpoena on the President to turn over certain documents, thus causing the classified documents to be found. That would be one explanation for why the President’s lawyers were the ones who found the stuff.
Lots of questions to be answered. I have little confidence in the people or the process involved, but the House might just do something worthwhile and press the matter, and the Trump-appointed DOJ lawyer* might actually do his job. Time will tell.
*Edit: I see that a special counsel has been appointed–a partner from Gibson Dunn. I know that firm employs some good folks, but no idea about this guy. Hopefully he’s up to the task.
What about a gas stove?
When I was the XO of a maintenance battalion, we were cited for having classified material adrift when the divisional G-2 (intelligence) did a routine after-hours inspection of our office spaces. It turns out they found the three-ring binder in which my son kept his POGs (a 1980s thing about milk caps with characters on them). I had made a cover for the binder that said stuff like “important”, “top secret”, and “hands off” on it.
We had to do a reply to the citation.
There’s really nothing rare about this sort of thing. IIRC, it was during the second Reagan or early in G. H. W.’s term that someone checked a briefcase full of classified documents at the curb before boarding the plane. [Skycap?] The briefcase was lost and never recovered.
Back then, I heard through the grapevine that someone on Lawrence Walsh’s team was seen reading TS/SCI documents related to Iran/Contra on the airplane.
As the old saying goes: Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi.
The View Peddles Outrageous Conspiracy Theory on Biden Classified Docs (townhall.com)
Gotta keep priorities in order!
(Couple years old, but still useful…)
I doubt it’s just Trump and Biden. How much would you bet that the other ex-presidents have top secret materials ferreted away in their junk drawers next to some old ketchup packets?
I think you’re probably right, which is why it’s really important to know what documents were contained in both “finds”. I suspect many/most are nothing special. On the other hand, if someone squirreled away documents (say, intel on Hunter Biden’s activities/contacts in Ukraine and China), it might well be a bigger problem.
I guarantee that it’s not limited to ex-Presidents either. How many government officials have behaved the way EVERYBODY behaved a few decades ago, when the Cold War was over and Classified controls went to Hell?
Totally understandable, in my defense I will say I laugh because I can. I do try too not mock what I don’t understand, but what I do understand becomes an open season for mockery, and there is no bag limit.
Classification procedures are (or were back when I was subject to them) pretty stupid sometimes.
When I had a Top Secret clearance, but not the next level required, I would write project reports, give them to the cleared secretary who would type them up. I was not allowed to proof read them, since I wasn’t yet cleared to that level.
It was relatively important – I remember one report where “Adaptive Beam Forming” (in an Anti Sub warfare proposal) was turned into “Adaptive Bean Farming”!
You mean, without laughter? I’m sure it didn’t seem funny at the time, but the reply…so many possibilities. Even in flat, official language I imagine it provoked a few smiles (after everything was cleared up).
I am convinced that some things were over-classified in a clumsy attempt to protect the associated budgets.
Hilary Clinton was the worst and probably did real damage to this country.
To this NatSec neophyte, that was always my judgment. Her stuff was in real-time for an extended time. Foreign governments probably couldn’t believe what they had stumbled onto. In fact, that might be the only saving grace—it was so ham-handed that they probably thought it was fake.
Hers was on a hard drive. May have been exposed to the internet.
Navy beans → Great northern beans.
This seems an apt place to insert an Irish/bean joke (Malarkey Joe Biden etc).
Why did the Irishman only put 239 beans in the soup?
One more and it would have been too-farty.