Congress Has a Lo-Fi Plan to Fix the Classified Documents Mess

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Capitol Hill already has safeguards to keep classified documents from ending up at golf resorts or garages. And it works. So why aren't those safeguards in place at the White House? 📷: Getty

The fear and trepidation over accidentally letting a secret slip is also hammered into lawmakers’ intelligence staffers, who handle the classified material as further protection against absent-minded members of Congress. To get a security clearance, these staffers undergo purposefully intimidating, invasive, and multi-stepped background checks conducted by either the Pentagon or FBI, and sometimes both.

Other committees can request to see classified materials in the Intelligence Committee’s possession. If the request is approved by the select panel, the materials are ferried—under lock and key—to other lawmakers with a stern warning: “Such material shall be accompanied by a verbal or written notice to the recipients advising of their responsibility to protect such materials.” Each night, sensitive materials must be returned to a secure SCIF. A written record of the secret’s travels is required.

“I’ve heard that in the media. It has never been confirmed to me … that one would be bizarre,” Rubio says. “So, frankly, I don’t know, on the Senate piece, how that could be possible.”

 

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This is the government version of 'works' - pay attention folks.

Would it have helped when Biden was VP? VPs office is on Capitol Hill, isn’t it?

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