Regarding tonight's "nuclear" news. I actually feel like a weight is being lifted off...

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64. I'm driving at the fact that our top secret nuclear materials were on walkabout for eighteen

months. When they should never have been allowed to leave secured rooms in the first place. When they should never touch the hands of National Archive employees. Or anyone else but the handful of people with appropriate clearances. And if they do, and if they go missing, it should not take eighteen months to find them. And if we knew where they were, we should not have left them in an unlocked room in the basement of a hotel.

You keep telling me what I am not thinking of. I think you're not thinking of the stakes involved in the loss of those documents. You're not thinking of the abject failure of every level of our national security apparatus that their loss represents, regardless of who was in office. You're not thinking of the danger we and our espionage community are in now because those documents have been in the wind for a year and a half.

If we knew the documents were missing when that crook left office - and we damn well ought to have known that - their retrieval should have been the first priority of every security entity in this country, and it shouldn't have taken eighteen months.