Yeah, “apparently” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. It’s also covering a lot of assumptions which may, or may not, be borne out by the DOJ investigation. But why wait and let inconvenient facts get in the way?Biden’s apparent mishandling of classified documents is a disaster. It may not be as willful and corruptly intended as Trump’s, but it’s nevertheless a serious breach of the responsibilities he undertook in his prior roles.
— Ian Bassin 🇺🇦 (@ianbassin) January 22, 2023
One begins to see how Trump “got away with it” for so long.
But more to the point, again we see the frailty of the system. No, not because Biden is in any way like Trump, but because we rely on “the system” to do the work for us, and when it can’t, we still hold that it cannot fail but can only be failed. So the blame is laid entirely on Biden, when this situation now calls into question the system itself.
After all, if it’s this easy to misplace/remove/keep classified documents (some reportedly go back to Biden’s days as a senator. That was over 14 years ago.), who’s keeping track of these things? Or, more accurately, not keeping track of them.
It seems if Trump had been smarter or more careful, we might still not know he had any classified documents at all. As it stands we still don’t know if he has, or doesn’t have, any other classified documents. And there’s no real way of knowing.
Is Biden’s mishandling of classified documents a “disaster”? I truly don’t think so. I think it’s the system of protecting and controlling those documents that’s broken and, along with the sweet dreams and flying machines, is in pieces on the ground. The real disaster is if we don’t use these situations to critically examine a clearly broken system.
Signs point to that not happening.
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