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  Look at them being proactive. Whoever is responsible for the collection and storage of classified documents really dropped the ball. However this is absolutely nothing like what trump did.
context: Why didn’t the Archives catch this themselves? That’s their effing job! >
  
  Exactly! How come they don’t put barcodes on all these documents? A local library has better tracking on what hasn’t been returned. >
  
  Just so fucking funny people still think there’s a massive government wide conspiracy when they can’t even properly keep track of their own tOp sEcReT doCuMents. Buncha ass clowns honestly. >
  
  Tbh the vast majority of these docs shouldn't be classified at all. When millions of docs are classified, it's an obvious case of abuse of classification, and the sole goal behind this is to keep information that should be public out of the public view. Probably less than 5% of these docs have legitimacy to be classified.
  The fact that they are handled so lightly shows two things: 1) politicians don't care about security and think themselves above the laws, and 2) the information in most of these documents isn't that critical that it should be classified. So why are these docs classified ? 
  Probably because they don't want to go through the trouble of actually reading them to check if some piece of information needs to stay secret, so they classify everything by default, which flies in the face of freedom of information. >
  
  It's true. Overclassification of documents in the government is a huge problem. And it really does just come down to laziness and complacency a lot of the time. 
  Source: worked in the IC alongside intel analysts of all flavors. >
  
  It's just lazy and a case of "cover your ass." If you label virtually everything as classified you don't have to think about the implications of the information in them. "That's just too much work.." /s >
  
  My personal opinion is that once they found the 1st batch all staff were sent on a mission to examine every. damn. box. In every space he has ever been in. So far I'm only seeing "classified", not much about top secret. For all we know at this point they are a bunch of schedules or drafts of legislation or who da fuq knows irrelevant stuff. Somebody dropped the ball when he left office previously. Investigate away. >
  
  If I had to guess, so take this with a heavy grain of salt, they’re old daily briefings that he held onto for whatever reason. He did spend 8 years as VP and would’ve been given them alongside Obama and it’s not unlikely that he would end up still having some now. >
  
  Would have gotten limited (weekly/monthly) briefings after leaving office too. >
  
  Do we have any sense how often documents are discovered after other presidencies? I have to imagine this is not unheard of, and possibly not even all that uncommon. For me, the distinguishing feature has always been the lack of cooperation and outright obfuscation on the part of the Trump camp. >
  
  Im thinking its not that abnormal either. Trumps response and the specific documents are the issue. 
  One thing i read said they were documents specifically relating to Biden himself. For all we know they are family phone numbers and addresses. 
  But nuance is not America's strong suit. >
  
  I'm reading he also had security clearance. So maybe not even a big deal in that sense. >
  
  Having classified documents isn't the crux of the legal liability Trump is facing. Rather lying to authorities and refusing to abide by a court order is at the heart of Trump's situation. 
  At one point or another both Biden and Trump were allowed to handle classified materials and know their contents. Having documents they were initially allowed to handle in itself is not a scandal. >
  
  
  Having documents they were initially allowed to handle in itself is not a scandal.
  
  Emphasis mine.
  Yes, it is.  Neither Biden nor Trump were allowed to have the documents in their personal possession at their homes after their replacements were sworn in.  It doesn't matter that they were allowed to handle them previously. >
  
  Somebody should look at the top comments from when the story about trump broke out and compare it to these. I’m almost positive they’d be opposite. >
  
  What really grinds my gears is the hosts of the View saying the documents were planted. People thought Trump was insane when he suggested that. >
  
  I’ve been glued t these threads for days. Saying there’s “hosts of people” saying that is bullshit. Yours is literally the first I’ve seen it suggested. >
  
  Wake up. >
  
  I guess there’s blue flavored koolaid and red flavored koolaid.