Not sure which emotion should have top billing: outrage or incredulity?
1. Bureaucrat schedules, especially stale working schedules classified TS/SCI? Overclassify much?
2. Running round with TS/SCI documents willy-nilly? How would they ever be secured, especially if Gen P landed (for the evening) someplace without a secure container?
3. Taking TS/SCI docs home? Keeping TS/SCI docs laying around after they are OBE? Was he nucking futz? Kill them with fire or a shredder certified for TS/SCI destruction and then have them trampled in the mud by a convenient herd of cattle.
4. How in the name of the Document Control Gawds was any significant number TS/SCI docs left laying about in Somedood's home?
5. Getting tired of the Sandy Berger Standard being applied to connected folks. Even if these were ridiculously overclassifed, Joe Schmoe would still be fried and take the Long Course at Ft Leavenworth.
6. Is the prostitute/author facing charges, too?
Gah!
1. Schedule may have good reason to be classified. "Meeting with General So and So from Turkey to discuss interdiction of supplies to insurgents", "Meeting with head of local political group on how to best screw over other political group", "Meeting with high level squealer for info on insurgents", etc.
2. Documents can be controlled outside of a SCIF. Most simple is having someone with the right clearance hold them. I was used as a classified doc pack mule more than once.
3. Yep, very much a no-go. And normally people can get pretty serious trouble over this. It's happened before that people loot classified documents to write books, or help someone else write a book. If it's TS and on a hard drive, you lose the drive and have to mail it to the NSA. And you definitely shouldn't read any TS material you're not SCI cleared for. Like the contingency plan for killing Osama bin Laden if he was located at Tora Bora. Which hypothetically would awesome enough to make Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay say "Ye fluffy Buddha on a flaming pogo stick, isn't that a BIT excessive on the explosions?" Yes, it was that awesome. It was hypothetically enough for hypothetical me to say "Yeah, that's actually enough overkill" without hypothetical sarcasm and be hypothetically sad that it wasn't hypothetically implemented, because it totally would have made a much better scene than a hypothetical stealth helicopter crash in the inevitable hypothetical movie. Imagine putting Gewehr, Fritz and I in a room with Red Bull and Whiskey to draw up an op order, and occasionally opening the door completely randomly to scream "NO, dammnit, MORE explosions."
4. Multiple star generals aren't held accountable under most circumstances when it comes to TS docs they personally generated. Ideally their aide handles it all appropriately.
