excerpted:
“..Was it the very special content of the classified documents that made this move necessary? Or is there something else that we do not yet know about? Something that led to the judgment that the current limit hangout of some dirty linen is better than to have a real scandal come to the public’s knowledge.
The whole thing is puzzling...”
Maybe someone else knew how many and where they were.
Then even if they were burned, someone knew of the existence, and destruction of evidence is worse than just finding them.