Thursday, January 12, 2023
PMT: Biden's classified documents
After castigating Donald Trump for keeping classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, now it turns out that Joe Biden did the same thing-- at his office and (we found out yesterday) at a second location as well.
While some people are trying to distinguish the two-- Biden had fewer documents, cooperated with the investigation and turned the material over once lawyers found it-- the basics seem to be the same for both men. In neither case do we have evidence that they intentionally took the documents for some nefarious purpose.
This makes both of them look bad-- at best, they were sloppy about what they took out of the White House.
One desirable outcome would be to restructure the way documents leave the White House at the end of an administration-- it might make sense to have it all go to the Archives for screening, and then to the former president or VP (or, probably, their libraries).
Speaking of libraries, there is no whiff of a Trump presidential library being considered. Part of that, I'm sure, is that Trump is convinced that his time in the White House isn't over. But whenever it happens, a Trump library will be especially important for historians, because those 4 years contained a very unusual period in American history.
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I agree that if documents are considered so sensitive there is a breakdown in the system of how they are tracked. That seems to be something that requires fixing.
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