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  There are certain things that can't be declassified at all iirc, by the president, vpresident, or any individual person, telepathically or not. I think nuclear secrets are an example.
context: I hope Obama, Clinton and Bush ask to have National Archive staff scrub their offices too. All this stuff should be digital these days with better scrub tools. >
  
  The reason they aren't digital is because its harder for spies to obtain them. However, that was under the guise of spies not being in office capable of taking them. >
  
  
  The reason they aren't digital is because its harder for spies to obtain them.
  
  Wait…do you think these documents were created on a typewriter? >
  
  There's a massive difference between printing a hard copy from a computer with no network access and transferring documents digitally.
  Some of these documents were likely handwritten or had handwritten notations on them, some come from sanitized computers like I mentioned above, and some are likely printouts of digital communications/reports that were previously sent digitally. We haven't heard much information about these documents other than that they were marked classified. >
  
  Even back in the 90's there were red networks and black networks, red for classified stuff black for everyday things. They were air gapped, some rooms were not even allowed to have black network cables run through them. All classified printers do the tracking thing snyou know who, what, and when something is printed. 
  I will say I haven't been in that business in 25 years but I hope things haven't gotten worse since I left. >
  
  This is just going to pour more fuel on the fire. >
  
  If it helps, conservatives were going to continue to lose their minds regardless of what Biden did or didn't do. >
  
  I just want conservative media to stop endlessly repeating the lie that the VP has no authority to declassify.  It's written in plain English that the VP (as well as multiple other high level positions) can declassify top secret information in the Executive Order that dictates how classified material is handled.
  Yes, there's a process that material has to go through for declassification, but the VP has the authority to start that process.  You've even got Mike Pence, a damn former VP, going out on Fox and saying the VP has no authority to declassify.  Dude doesn't even know his former responsibilities and duties.  Jesus, the Trump administration was such a shitshow full of ignorant and unqualified idiots.
  Edit:  Executive Order 13526 dictates how all classified information shall be designated, handled, and declassified.