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I'm Shemee Tabasu.

Today, how America's problem with classified documents lately, turning up in all the wrong places.

Today the National Archives confirmed that it found classified information among the documents

Donald Trump removed from the White House and brought to Marilago.

A small number of classified documents had been found in the garage of President Biden's Wilmington residents and in a room next door.

So the material was in a locked garage?

Yes, as well as my Corvette.

Yet more classified documents slipped out of the White House and into the private home of a top

official. These documents were uncovered at the Indiana home of former Vice

President Mike Pence. The whole point of classification is to protect national secrets, things like war plans,

intelligence sources and sensitive communications.

And there's a whole system around how classified documents get stored, reviewed, and possibly marked for declassification years later when they're no longer deemed sensitive.

Now, recently, we've learned that some former government officials have been

holding onto files they weren't supposed to. But historian Matthew Connolly

says America has a bigger problem. Way, way, way too many documents are being

classified in the first place. Even if you're just writing to a colleague

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