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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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  1. BDB Inactive
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    Manny (View Comment):

    Justin Other Lawyer (View Comment):

    Manny (View Comment):

    Michael Brehm (View Comment):

    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?

    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.

    Was definitely exposed.  A connected e-mail server without basic e-mail controls certainly was not competent at blocking other threats.

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  2. Percival Thatcher
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    BDB (View Comment):

    Manny (View Comment):

    Justin Other Lawyer (View Comment):

    Manny (View Comment):

    Michael Brehm (View Comment):

    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?

    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.

    Was definitely exposed. A connected e-mail server without basic e-mail controls certainly was not competent at blocking other threats.

    Everything Hillary had can be assumed to be in the hands of anyone who was even remotely interested. It’s a fair bet that the Chinese have everything that Joe had – though in that case, they have more just from all the business deals with Hunter. And Swalwell’s girlfriend, Fang Fang. And Diane Feinstein’s driver.

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  3. kedavis Coolidge
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    Percival (View Comment):

    BDB (View Comment):

    Manny (View Comment):

    Justin Other Lawyer (View Comment):

    Manny (View Comment):

    Michael Brehm (View Comment):

    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?

    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.

    Was definitely exposed. A connected e-mail server without basic e-mail controls certainly was not competent at blocking other threats.

    Everything Hillary had can be assumed to be in the hands of anyone who was even remotely interested. It’s a fair bet that the Chinese have everything that Joe had – though in that case, they have more just from all the business deals with Hunter. And Swalwell’s girlfriend, Fang Fang. And Diane Feinstein’s driver.

    And then the Chinese smacked themselves on the forehead for wasting money on spies when the Dims were just giving it away for free!

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  4. Some Call Me ...Tim Coolidge
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    Chris O (View Comment):

    Some Call Me …Tim (View Comment):

    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.

    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).

    Everybody thought it was pretty funny when I showed them the “top secret” documents.   I think the G-2 guys weren’t too serious about it either. 

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  5. kedavis Coolidge
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    Some Call Me …Tim (View Comment):

    Chris O (View Comment):

    Some Call Me …Tim (View Comment):

    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.

    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).

    Everybody thought it was pretty funny when I showed them the “top secret” documents. I think the G-2 guys weren’t too serious about it either.

    But they also have paperwork requirements.

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  6. Manny Coolidge
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    BDB (View Comment):

    Manny (View Comment):

    Justin Other Lawyer (View Comment):

    Manny (View Comment):

    Michael Brehm (View Comment):

    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?

    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.

    Was definitely exposed. A connected e-mail server without basic e-mail controls certainly was not competent at blocking other threats.

    Yes, it’s been a while so I couldn’t remember the details.  It was exposed to the internet.

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  7. BDB Inactive
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    Some Call Me …Tim (View Comment):

    Chris O (View Comment):

    Some Call Me …Tim (View Comment):

    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.

    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).

    Everybody thought it was pretty funny when I showed them the “top secret” documents. I think the G-2 guys weren’t too serious about it either.

    “Your attitude has been noticed.  Oh, yes, it has been noticed!”

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  8. Full Size Tabby Member
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    Michael Brehm (View Comment):

    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?

    Hugh Hewitt, who as a lawyer represented the Nixon Library for years and is now a radio talk show guy, says it’s universal. Well maybe not the “junk drawers next to some old ketchup packets” detail, but there’s always disputes about the nature of material an ex-president takes. 

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    WillowSpring (View Comment):
    It was relatively important – I remember one report where “Adaptive Beam Forming” (in an Anti Sub warfare proposal) was turned into “Adaptive Bean Farming”!

    For many years I worked as a lawyer responsible for protecting technology that was developed by a company that did both government contract work and independent work. Much of the technology development work the company did had multiple applications, but we had an internal understanding not to note the technology’s potential use on submarines, and any mention of submarines would be guaranteed to get the information “classified” by the government, and thus the technology would become unavailable for other uses. 

    While working for that company, I tried to stay as far away as possible from the locked cabinets that held the “classified” information. 

     

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