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In reply to the discussion: Trump attorneys haven't found classified document former president referred to on tape [View all]Novara
(5,843 posts)... how NARA - or the DoD for that matter - doesn't know EXACTLY what is still missing. It boggles my mind that there isn't a better tracking methodology for highly classified information. I would imagine every single paper that goes to anyone's desk anywhere would be tracked, with a chain of custody, so it is known who has every copy of every bit of sensitive material at all times, and ESPECIALLY the stuff that has to be viewed in a SCIF.
I am an environmental chemist. Laboratories keep better track of samples - dirt to the layman - than it would seem our most sensitive material is tracked. Everyone knows who has that sample container and what is being done to it because it is tracked. It is tracked from collection in the field, all throughout transport, as it arrives at the lab, and within the lab, all the way to its final deposition when testing has been concluded.
And another thing? If someone who works for the orange pustule says they can't find the document why would anyone believe them? They're paid to lie. They've been caught lying, particularly in this case. So if they say they can't locate it, either they are lying or he has sold or destroyed it.