Lt. Col Shaffer has "copies" of all those documents. You can bet on that. That is done so that in the case something like this happens. Well you can cover your old patoot, so to speak.
read the thread, most people here who seem to be in the know regarding how classified documents are handled, say that he cannot have copies of these documents sitting around in his house. now if he has some stashed copies of them, he had better start leaking them now, because this thing is going to be swept under the rug otherwise.