{"id":20881,"date":"2023-01-24T13:47:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T18:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/?p=20881"},"modified":"2023-01-24T13:47:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T18:47:45","slug":"the-documents-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2023\/01\/24\/the-documents-debacle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Documents Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>One thing that has been getting up my nose about the whole Documents Debacle\u2014the latest news being that a few documents that were marked as classified were found in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/24\/us\/politics\/mike-pence-classified-documents.html\">Our Previous Vice-President\u2019s possession<\/a>\u2014is that\u2026 OK, actually there are two things.\r\n<p>First is that we as a nation classify way too many documents as being legally secret, and we don\u2019t actually control those documents in any coherent and organized way, and we don\u2019t provide enough resources to the National Archives and Records Administration to deal with the whole business, and I really think that we would be better off, as a nation, if we fixed all of that. We should classify fewer documents. We should put enough resources into controlling classified documents that we know where all of them are, and if we can\u2019t do that, we should only classify as many documents as we are willing to actually track. So that\u2019s a thing that gets up my nose.\r\n<p>And the second thing that gets up my nose is that the official Papers of the President and Vice-President belong to the nation, and office-holders should not steal them, whether they are classified or not. I am not concerned\u2014I have never been concerned, even in the case of Our Previous President\u2014about the spread of the information in the classified documents. I\u2019m concerned about the theft of our national property. I\u2019m concerned about biographers and political scientists and historians (and even historiasters) not having access to the material that they should have. This isn\u2019t just secrets, and it isn\u2019t primarily secrets. It\u2019s not about how they\u2019re stored. It\u2019s about stealing.\r\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,<\/I><br>-Vardibidian.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Which Your Humble Blogger doesn't mention the media end of things, because, well, I'm not really disappointed in the media at this point.","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20884,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20881\/revisions\/20884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}