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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)... there is no uniform federal chain of custody procedure. I should think there would be, based on the numerous procedures for levels of classification, and especially materials that are to never leave a SCIF.
How is it that an environmental laboratory can keep better track of a jar of dirt than these agencies can keep track of highly classified material? It boggles me. I'm no longer in the lab and I'm a consultant now, but we will not use data derived without a clear chain of custody. You also know you're not allowed to erase or write in pencil, you can't obliterate a correction by scribbling over it - one line only so it can still be read, etc. Pages in notebooks have to be numbered by the notebook manufacturer and hardbound, etc. I've got it! Put scientists in charge of record retention in all agencies!
And essentially, that's my beef with this. And my utter incredulity that they still don't know all of what they're missing. This is classified material! Kind of more important than a jar of dirt.
And even with your post on the 4th Amendment, I still don't understand how they couldn't or wouldn't get a search warrant for Bedminster. They KNOW he took documents there. Given the fact that he lied about MaL, why the hell wouldn't they have justification to search Bedminster?