Posted on 01/26/2023 7:50:55 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
WASHINGTON (AP) — At least three presidents. A vice president, a secretary of state, an attorney general. The mishandling of classified documents is not a problem unique to President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
The matter of classified records and who, exactly, has hung onto them got more complicated Tuesday as news surfaced that former Vice President Mike Pence also had such records in his possession after he left office. Like Biden, Pence willingly turned them over to authorities after they were discovered during a search he requested, according to his lawyer and aides.
The revelations have thrust the issue of proper handling of documents — an otherwise low-key Washington process — into the middle of political discourse and laid bare an uncomfortable truth: Policies meant to control the handling of the nation’s secrets are haphazardly enforced among top officials and rely almost wholly on good faith.
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CYA bloviating in full bloom
AP urinalist chaff.
Was there no mention that Trump lawyers were negotiating with the national archives?
No, that wouldn't fit the narrative (see Tagline).
Also, from I've read, Biden kept classified documents in cardboard boxes in his garage, which Hunter Biden had access to. Trump kept declassified documents in a SAFE. Haven't heard anything about the ones that Pence had.
“They all do it” - AP
Hard to top Hillary’s classified e-mails on an unsecured bathroom server and some of those e-mails making their way to Huma’s laptop the one that Anthony Weiner used for contacting under age girls
Re#7. Pandora’s box has been opened. Obama and Clinton x 2 have hot to be pissing in their panties.
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