Mitigating the security risks is not easy, and not cheap -- but at Sandy Berger's level, it should be routine. The idea that one guy can stuff a few copies of a memo down his pants and "poof!" all knowledge of such a memo is forever gone is just shocking. I do not know what procedures are followed at the National Archives, and perhaps they are smart enough so that nothing was actually "lost" -- but the news coverage seems to indicate that Berger did some irrepairable damage to the Archives. All I'm saying: relying on paper is barbaric.
I agree with you vis-a-vis (pardon my french) the methods of securing digital data, and the fact it should have been done. I find it unconscionable if this putz-berger managed to delete from the national record even one scintilla of info. But, and it's almost as big as Hillary's, the klintoon admin was known for its obsessive need for approval, which in turn necessitated the need to make some things erasable (when you're going to write down something that may haunt you, do it in pencil - right?).
So, aside from a bad string of puns, I think this may be the end of a very, very long thread of conscious, deliberate decisions made in the klintoon admin that compromise national security. The neglectful method of storage of these drafts may have been the proverbial "pencil" that made the info erasable.
Now, where's my tin foil hat?