“I’m thinking it was meant to be found”
The government bureaucracy is so vast, as is th FBI, and things are overlooked or forgotten. This could have occurred for any number of reasons, most probably accidental. However, not all Intelligence people are corrupt. Management certainly is.
I spent 45 years working in military and GS and when burn bags are used to get rid of classified or sensitive papers the mindset is that when placed in the bag it is gone for good. The actual burning of the materials is handed off to an lower staff member for administrative assistant who may not be in a big hurry to spend hours burning the stuff or a contacted agency that does the burning simply may not get around to pick it up as frequently as expected. So I firmly believe that the crooks thought the stuff was ashes when they left and now it looks like they will be the ones getting burned instead.
I spent 45 years working in military and GS and when burn bags are used to get rid of classified or sensitive papers the mindset is that when placed in the bag it is gone for good. The actual burning of the materials is handed off to an lower staff member for administrative assistant who may not be in a big hurry to spend hours burning the stuff or a contacted agency that does the burning simply may not get around to pick it up as frequently as expected. So I firmly believe that the crooks thought the stuff was ashes when they left and now it looks like they will be the ones getting burned instead.