What Next - Who Doesn’t Have Classified Documents?
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🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
At this point, classified documents have been uncovered in the homes of former President Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence, and President Biden. But there are more practical issues with how the government treats classified documents than just whose garage they’re sitting in.
Guest: Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice
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| 0:46.7 | So Liza, I'm going to start by asking this. Who doesn't have classified documents at this point? |
| 0:53.2 | You know, I don't. I don't. Are you sure? I feel a little left out. |
| 1:02.3 | Elizabeth Goitine, she goes by Liza, works at the Brennan Center. But she was a government attorney for years. |
| 1:10.6 | Well, yet, and what's interesting, how many people I spoke into in the last few days, who have said, |
| 1:15.2 | my god, I'm going to go look at my file kind of said, home, I mean, you know, people who would actually have authorized access to |
| 1:20.6 | classified information pretty much, you know, people who are sweeping the floor in the halls of the Department of Homeland Security need a clearance. |
| 1:30.0 | I called Liza up because I wanted a guide to the ongoing drip, drip, drip of information about government executives squirreling away classified documents. |
| 1:40.7 | Back in August, former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago stash was rated. |
| 1:44.6 | Sources telling ABC News, the search has related the allegations the former president improperly removed documents when he left the White House. |
| 1:51.3 | They were brought to Mar-a-Lago, including classified material. And it wasn't the first. |
| 1:55.5 | In the month since, files have turned up in Joe Biden's home and his office, and Mike Pence's place too. |
| 2:01.0 | The FBI search of the president's Wilmington Delaware home lasted 13 hours and turned up even more classified material than his lawyers had found there before. |
| 2:11.2 | We don't really know much about these documents, just that they seem to be everywhere. |
| 2:16.3 | Liza says, the first thing you need to understand here is that it isn't just presidents and vice presidents who are slipping classified files in their briefcases. |
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