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Do you really think O'Neill reviewed 19,000 documents before he handed them over to the writer? Do you really think he should have?

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Do you really think O'Neill reviewed 19,000 documents before he handed them over to the writer? Do you really think he should have?

I'll put it this way. If upon my USAF retirement my former administrative personnel gave me a CD of all the documents I had a hand in creating during my time as a constitutionally appointed Officer of the US government, I'd shred it right in front of him and a few other witnesses. That said, executive officers are provided extraordinary privilege to documents related to their administration. Presidential libraries contain untold classified documents. However, those documents are (hopefully) not handled in a flippant manner. They are subject to review and redaction prior to public release. In other words:

Do you really think O'Neill reviewed 19,000 documents before he handed them over to the writer?
Apparently not. But he could have paid an authorized individual to do it. Historically, that is how other's have handled their papers.
Do you really think he should have?
YES.

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Was there a possibility there was something incriminating about O'Neill on any of those 19000 docs? Might have been.

Did he review them? He says no.

Could he have already known there was nothing on them about him?
Possibly.