Listen, I’m no guru, but I was unaware that there was a “small number” exemption in the laws pertaining to the mishandling of classified information. After all, Clinton’s National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, who was about to testify in front of the 9/11 Commission, stuffed copies of a single classified report down his pants in 2004. He was sentenced to two years of probation and 100 hours of community service, was stripped of his security clearance, and lost his law license. As a legal and political matter, the attempted destruction of a single report detailing the Clinton administration’s failures regarding Islamic terrorism mattered quite a bit at the time. Certainly, it’s not just a matter of numbers.
Nevertheless, Gerstein argues that it’s not unusual “for small numbers of emails or documents that are classified to get mixed in with unclassified records,” but it is “hard to argue you don’t know what’s lying around your house if there’s a lot of it.”
Is it? The media keeps mentioning this “think tank” to convince readers that it’s all just a big misunderstanding. I mean, who does anything wrong at a think tank, right? Of course, the institution in question was home to Biden’s personal office at a “job” he held with the University of Pennsylvania from 2017-19 — where he made nearly a million dollars for nine visits to the actual school (one of them to sell his novel, “Promise Me, Dad.”) Does Trump know what’s “lying around” his 62,500-square-foot, 58-bedroom home any more than Biden does his office? Maybe. It is almost surely the case that security at this larger residence, provided by the Secret Service, is as good as what one might find on the sixth-floor office of a “think tank” in the middle of D.C.
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Nevertheless, Gerstein argues that it’s not unusual “for small numbers of emails or documents that are classified to get mixed in with unclassified records,” but it is “hard to argue you don’t know what’s lying around your house if there’s a lot of it.”
Is it? The media keeps mentioning this “think tank” to convince readers that it’s all just a big misunderstanding. I mean, who does anything wrong at a think tank, right? Of course, the institution in question was home to Biden’s personal office at a “job” he held with the University of Pennsylvania from 2017-19 — where he made nearly a million dollars for nine visits to the actual school (one of them to sell his novel, “Promise Me, Dad.”) Does Trump know what’s “lying around” his 62,500-square-foot, 58-bedroom home any more than Biden does his office? Maybe. It is almost surely the case that security at this larger residence, provided by the Secret Service, is as good as what one might find on the sixth-floor office of a “think tank” in the middle of D.C.
'Differences' Between Biden, Trump Document Troubles Mean Little
The media really want you know that Joe Biden’s classified document controversy is completely different from Donald Trump’s.
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