Classified document possessors would do well to co-opt the hashtag MeToo label.
First, it was Donald Trump, arguing about his right to possess classified documents and enduring an FBI raid at his Florida estate that, on a personnel scale, dwarfed the number of combatants sent to take down Bin Laden.
Then it was Clueless Joe Biden, whose lackeys dribbled out, months after the fact, admissions that the Clueless One had classified documents at one house.
And in a garage. And in an office. And . . .
“No regrets” said Clueless Joe with his usual arrogance, based on no real accomplishment.
Now Mike Pence, vice president under Trump, has entered the classified confessional and cried out Me, Too!
Someone ought to tell these guys holding classified documents outside legal limits is not cause for bragging.
It’s almost as though they just want the attention. As my cousin is fond of saying: “Beat me, bore me, but never ignore me.”
You are forgiven for wondering just who might be next to have their underlings confess that they, too, found classified documents among stacks of old newspapers and magazines – or wherever the next caches of purloined documents might be found.
There certainly are candidates to show up with classified material.
Start with any of those high level Ukrainian government officials who have resigned amidst allegations of widespread corruption.
You remember all those billions we’ve been sending to Ukraine, with minimal control of how the money is being spent? Well, now it seems it was going for expensive cars, mansions and luxury vacations for these governmental elites.
Bad look, especially when the war now seems to be going badly, with soldiers and citizens alike lamenting their deprived status. Yet, all the while, these governmental types have been living the A-list lifestyle.
Maybe some classified documents were among the money they purloined?
Closer to home, the scandal-plagued FBI has a fresh candidate to have classified information found in his home, car, storage unit or briefcase.
That would be former special agent Charles McGonigal, who was involved in the Trump Russiagate hoax, but now is charged with taking money – wait for it – from a Russian oligarch, that term an update on the robber baron label formerly applied to exploitative U.S. business leaders.
If, as alleged, McGonigal was taking money from the people he was supposed to be investigating, surely it might be possible some of the classified documents he handled for the FBI stuck to his sticky fingers.
We can hardly wait to awake tomorrow and see what fresh prominent name is revealed as having his or her hand caught in the classified cookie jar.
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