Reply #22: Did he make the copies, or did he remove the "working copies" provided by the [View All]

[MADem]

Archives? That's flat theft, the latter supposition.

Here's my problem with what he did--anyone with clearance and access knows, or should know, that you don't do that. He violated basic classified material control policy, by failing to safeguard the materials OR account for them appropriately. You sign them out, you carry them in a proper fashion, and you seal them in an appropriate safe that is adequate to contain them securely.

That's a CAREER ENDER in the military, what he did. I've seen otherwise good kids fall by the wayside for similar shoddiness. It's just something that isn't tolerated. At his paygrade and level of government service, he knew better.

And I'm not a member of the 'two wrongs make a right' club, either. I really think the shenanigans with the Roberts papers at the Reagan library need to be carefully investigated. There's a stink about that business, too....