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In Washington, ‘classified’ is synonymous with ‘controversy’
The Associated Press ^ | January 12, 2023 | By CHRIS MEGERIAN

Posted on 01/12/2023 9:05:02 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton’s presidential dreams were undermined by her use of a private email server that included classified information.

Donald Trump has risked criminal charges by refusing to return top-secret records to the government after leaving the White House.

And now misplaced files with classified markings could cause a political headache for President Joe Biden.

The three situations are far from equivalent. But taken together, they represent a remarkable stretch in which document management has been a recurring source of controversy at the highest levels of American politics.

For some, it’s a warning about clumsiness or hubris when it comes to handling official secrets. For others, it’s a reminder that the federal government has built an unwieldy — and perhaps unmanageable — system for storing and protecting classified information.

“Mistakes happen, and it’s so easy to grab a stack of documents from your desk as you’re leaving your office, and you don’t realize there’s a classified document among those files,” said Mark Zaid, a lawyer who works on national security issues. “You just didn’t hear about it, for whatever reason.”

Now Americans are hearing about it all the time. Political talk shows have been clogged with conversations about which papers were stashed in which box in which closet. Voters are getting schooled in intelligence jargon like TS/SCI, HUMINT and damage assessments.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidendidit; classified; democrats; documents; headache; hillarydisit; journalism; media; mistakeshappen; narrative; press; trumpdidit
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The “narrative” is ‘mistakes happen, and it’s so easy to grab a stack of documents as you’re leaving your office.’
1 posted on 01/12/2023 9:05:02 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

President Retard has controversy running out his butt


2 posted on 01/12/2023 9:06:15 AM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How CARELESS!!


3 posted on 01/12/2023 9:09:47 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You knew the “mistakes happen” excuse would be all over the news.


4 posted on 01/12/2023 9:10:04 AM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Mistakes were made” is the magic phrase that erases all political (and legal) sins......................


5 posted on 01/12/2023 9:11:39 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This ultimately will (again) reflect badly on Merrick Garland and the DOJ/FBI

In Garland and the DOJ’s KGB-like zeal to pursue Trump, they created a huge spectacle, which their own puppet is now guilty of.


6 posted on 01/12/2023 9:12:05 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The situaions are far from equivelant.

In the case of Trump, he knew where the documents were and had them stored safely. With Biden, he had carelessly abandoned some the documents in an unoccupied office at a university, and left some in his garage, and forgotten about them.


7 posted on 01/12/2023 9:15:38 AM PST by Roadrunner383
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Hillary Clinton’s presidential dreams were undermined by her use of a private email server that included classified information.

Donald Trump has risked criminal charges by refusing to return top-secret records to the government after leaving the White House.

And now misplaced files with classified markings could cause a political headache for President Joe Biden.

The abuse of the language to support 'The Narrative' is horrific.

8 posted on 01/12/2023 9:19:49 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (When did my Color TV become Colored TV? And Gay?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

AP be TP, but hardly as useful.


9 posted on 01/12/2023 9:23:58 AM PST by Quentin Quarantino
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nice to see that AP is reporting this so evenhandedly /s

“Hillary Clinton’s presidential dreams were undermined by her use of a private email server that included classified information.” Ah, it was really the server’s fault, not hers.

“Donald Trump has risked criminal charges by refusing to return top-secret records...” Donald Trump, criminal charges, refusing...

“And now misplaced files with classified markings...” You see, the files were just misplaced, no one did anything wrong...


10 posted on 01/12/2023 9:24:12 AM PST by hanamizu
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“Mistakes happen, and it’s so easy to grab a stack of documents from your desk as you’re leaving your office, and you don’t realize there’s a classified document among those files,” said Mark Zaid”

Here we go.

L


11 posted on 01/12/2023 9:25:30 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Three examples are provided but one detail is omitted and that is that only Trump had the authority to declassify any and all documents he possessed at the time he obtained them. Hillary Clinton had no authority and was an egregious violator. Biden could have asked Obama to declassify for him, but apparently he didn’t bother. But you can’t use the same standard for Democrats as you do for Republicans. A Democrat without authority it’s a mistake error but for a Republican with authority it’s a crime.


12 posted on 01/12/2023 9:26:51 AM PST by webheart
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Just goes to show that too much information is being classified without review. Sometimes “classified” is a means to effect “cover-up”.
13 posted on 01/12/2023 9:29:13 AM PST by asinclair (What doesn't kill you makes you stronger)
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Hillary Clinton’s presidential dreams were undermined

Because most of the sane AND insane people actually hate her.


14 posted on 01/12/2023 9:31:23 AM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

My question is why the gov is printing out all these classified documents? Who prints that much anymore? I can count on 1 hand the number of pages I printed in my office over the last 12 months.


15 posted on 01/12/2023 9:36:55 AM PST by Marko413
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yep. When it involves Trump, obviously, it’s his fault and the greatest crime since Watergate.

When it’s Biden, well, the system is flawed, outdated, broken and impossible for anyone to comply with.


16 posted on 01/12/2023 9:38:16 AM PST by Boogieman
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“My question is why the gov is printing out all these classified documents?”

Probably to make it easier for them to be handed off to the Chinese without leaving an electronic trail behind.


17 posted on 01/12/2023 9:39:18 AM PST by Boogieman
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"Donald Trump has risked criminal charges by refusing to return top-secret records to the government after leaving the White House."

Are they just making up new sh*t now? They are trying to shift the narrative from merely possessing them to 'refusing to give them back'. Unlike Biden who is giving them back, I suppose, which makes it OK that he had them in the first place?

18 posted on 01/12/2023 9:52:26 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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Re: Hillary…

first it was “a few FBI files”… then “a dozen”…then “as many as twenty FBI files”…finally “more than 900 files”

Waiting for number of Classified docs to be “updated”.

19 posted on 01/12/2023 9:58:51 AM PST by Jumpmaster (U.S. Army Paratrooper. I am the 0.001%.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The three situations are far from equivalent.

Two democrats not guilty with evidence one Republican guilty with no evidence

Associated Press translation for those who don’t know how D.C. and the media operate.

Never trust a democrat


20 posted on 01/12/2023 10:47:36 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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