Do classified documents often show up in someone's possession improperly?

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Mark Zaid is a great attorney who specializes in this area of the law

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[exboyfil]

1. Classified documents are not supposed to be mixed with unclassified ones

Or at least that was how it worked at my two employers where we had classified documents. They are stored in a separate safe - I can't imagine how they would tag along with someone's stuff when they leave a job.

Also I can't imagine retaining employer documents after leaving employment. I have left three employers in my career, and I carried no paperwork besides my personnel file out. When I retire in five to eight years it will also be so.

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2. Sounds like Donny Dump is a hoarder

A big, fat, rotten, piece of shit hoarder...

[Cha]

3. TY, LMPV.. we'll see how this

happened.

I hope the m$$m & gops have to eat their words.

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4. I'm personally aware of a situation where someone took documents that were not classified...

totally legitimately ... and two of the documents in their possession were subsequently classified. The person had no knowledge of the reclassification. When the documents were discovered and the issue became known, they simply cooperated with an investigation. The documents were returned, the process examined and corrected, and everyone went their happy merry ways.

For any number of reasons, this happens too commonly. It's what happens when it is discovered that is important.

[haele]

8. During work from home, I regularly had CUI materials in a locked home filing cabinet.

These are "Classified&quot For Official Use Only) documents I needed to do my work.
No Secret documents, those stayed on base in the proper storage areas for that level of classification. After I was done with them, I would get permission to take them back to the base office and either re-file or shred them.
It might be possible that there is a page of a brief that might have fallen out of a folder that is still in the back of my file cabinet.
So, after this post, I'll unlock the sucker and pull all my drawers out to check.

Haele

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5. Before we had a foreign agent pretending to be president finding class docs was probably

a nothing burger, probably turned up in many administrations offices and such. tRump changed all that though it probably should always be taken seriously.

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6. Yes!

In my dream I saw a document on how to get Trump before he kills someone just to watch them die on 5th Avenue. It suggested calling it 5th Boulevard instead.

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7. "The reality is that on a routine basis, classified information is mishandled across the government

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