Biden Claims Classified Docs Were “From 1974 And Stray Papers”

In a blatant propaganda interview with PBS, Joe Biden tried to minimize the damage of the numerous classified documents he mishandled. His plan was to basically act like they don’t even really matter because they’re “from 1974” and they’re just “stray papers.” But this doesn’t actually make things any better. This means that Joe Biden has been mishandling classified documents for just shy of half a century. That also means that no one has cared about him mishandling classified documents for almost half a century. Which begs the question, why do they care now? Why did they finally decide to out him over these documents? Is this just part of their plan to find a viable reason to kick him to the curb in favor of a different candidate? Yes, I totally think this was a carefully planned op to give the Democrats an out from the Biden bandwagon. I think the “discovery” of these mishandled classified documents was strategic and intentional.

In addition to downplaying the severity of mishandling classified documents for almost 50 years, he also blamed his aids and staffers for him mishandling those classified documents. We’ve heard this excuse before, when CNN blamed Trump for Biden mishandling those documents. They claimed that the move out of the Vice President’s office was chaotic and an “uneasy moment” for Biden’s aids because Trump becoming president was so traumatic, and that’s apparently why all these classified documents got spread around the country in various Biden homes and offices. So I guess that’s the narrative, now. Blame the staffers.

I will say this, though. Our country has a major over-classification problem, and it has everything to do with transparency and accountability, or the lack thereof. In the military, and I assume the federal government at large, a huge amount of non-sensitive documents are rubber-stamped as classified regardless of whether the contents of the document needs to be classified. If it was written by someone with a top secret clearance, it gets classified. If it’s printed from a computer in an office that handles top secret information, it gets classified. If it comes from a group or unit also handling classified documents, it gets classified. It could be the most benign inter-office memo, and it will still end up classified because they feel obligated to classify everything to cover their own rears.

Ultimately, multiple things can be true at once: mishandling classified documents is a huge deal; presidents who mishandle classified documents should be treated the same; many classified documents probably have no important or sensitive information in them; the federal government uses document classification to avoid transparency and accountability.