Trump attorneys haven't found classified document former president referred to on tape

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28. "Why the DOJ sat on its hands for months and then more months"

Because DOJ does not "run the entire government". They are just the "law enforcement" arm.

Government agencies run the government and the one "in charge" of "document disposition" was NARA (National Archives and Records Administration), which has procedures to make sure that federal Records Schedules are developed, updated (with a whole change control process), and adhered to, and they are on the same page with agencies regarding the maintenance and whereabouts of government records, including when they are sent for storage.

In this case, things were made worse when the "owners" of some of those docs (notably those that were "classified" ), lost track of them.

NARA spent a year going through their own process of interacting with 45's staff to determine what needed to be returned, which they do with EVERY departing administration. The requests were eventually escalated when the cabal was non-responsive and/or insufficiently responsive, after which their procedure then requires them to do a referral to DOJ since neither NARA nor most other federal agencies, have any "criminal enforcement authority" to force adherence to their regulations and procedures.

Everything that has gone on with that last administration has been unprecedented. It's just "not done" and has never happened with the depth, breadth, and scope that 45 fucked shit up.