most classified documents are kept in a skiff. For another thing, I think will be very difficult to tag every classified document that leaves a skiff to go to a presidential office or to a vice president’s office, because we’re talking about something that would have to be applied every single page and most of the things that can track them are relatively big.
Also, would be tracking everything since the time of Nixon. No chips then.
@J_Windrow .. and why not? I worked at one of the largest libraries in the country and we TAGGED every danged book/mag/print item! with barcodes.. it can be done. You computer/phone is address tagged and there are billions of them.
@JazzCrafter You did this during the Nixon administration?
These files are largely stored in highly confidential sites. They're stored for something like 50 years.
Most never leave high-security areas.
And, honestly, is that microchip trackable by satellite? Because that's what you'd need to find random papers. That must make it fantastically easy to find overdue books. 😂
Because if you can do that, a lot of third world countries trying to monitor their people want to talk to you. 😜
@J_Windrow Actually.. I DID live in DC when the Nixon/Agnew crime garbage went down.. it was scary, I'll tell you, and many laws in place now came about as a result of that period. As for you, what do you suggest? That we do nothing? That we stick to the same flawed security? There are those who are against us who would prefer that as well..
@J_Windrow sooo.... this is a long unresolved problem then... any suggestion for solutions?
@JazzCrafter there is a request by the national archives for every president since Carter to search for docs. It does not apply to Carter as he signed the law but it did not apply to his admin.
From now on there must be a routine search at end end of every administration.
@JazzCrafter That when someone leaves office here is an automatic search by the FBI be SOP. That no stone be left unturned.
There was a time when one of Jimmy Carter’s people accidentally left highly classified documents with a journalist. It was totally unintentional. The journalist didn’t realize it was classified. Years later his daughter took them to school for show and tell. A teacher saw the classified markings and called the FBI.