Couldn’t Have Said It Better Myself

The more Biden cooperates on the document searches, the more stories insisting the scandal is out of control.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 22, 2023

I think the truth will turn out to be that classified document handling is not nearly as locked down as people would assume, and as with all flaws in the system, Trump had unparalleled skills in finding them for criminal ends.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 22, 2023

Does whoever is in charge of these documents know what "classified" means? @lesdoggg pic.twitter.com/nFxi0mwEmn

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) January 22, 2023

And yeah, this is pretty much a Beltway bubble story:

Like most Dems have been, @SenatorDurbin is an embarrassment on this issue. Shld be ashamed of himself. Dems play to the desires of the DC press. https://t.co/ikGtsEMazS

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 22, 2023

BREAKING: Most Americans think both Biden and Trump inappropriately handled classified documents, but in weighing their severity, a plurality of the public believes Trump's actions were more serious, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds. https://t.co/UXONL8ajRZ

— ABC News (@ABC) January 22, 2023

Which brings me back to Leslie Jones: who is controlling these documents?

Is The U.S. Gov't Designating Too Many Documents As Classified'?https://t.co/mUNO1JDCSP

— Mary Holm (@maryfranholm) January 22, 2023

Historian Matthew Connelly says government records are marked as "classified" three times every second — and many of them will never be declassified. We talk about what that means for the public and how this might change. His new book is The Declassification Engine.

I think that gets us a little closer to an answer.