Opinion: Trump and now Biden, too? It’s time to reform the classification process
In the last two years, two men who previously served as constitutional officers of the executive branch have been informed that records marked classified from their time in office have been located in their private residences or offices. Those two men, of course, are former President Donald Trump, and current President (and former Vice President) Joe Biden. To paraphrase Robert Frost, the roads these two men were on diverged in a wood, and Biden took the one the law requires you to travel on. Unlike Trump, who spent nearly 18 months delaying, obfuscating, and arguably obstructing efforts by the federal government to recover from Mar-a-Lago all of the documents with classification markings, Biden’s team appears to have played by the book. According to media reports, in November 2022, Biden’s personal lawyers were clearing out the remaining items at his private office at his pre-presidency think tank when they located approximately 10 documents containing classification markings. The law