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The cringe from this former Federal records manager.

Banker's boxes--they should be in standard FRC boxes. No box lists, so no idea what's actually in them. Not temperature and humidity controlled area. Anyone up to and including Marc Mayhem (what I call the Allstate man) can see them vs "eyes only." Multiple violations of the Federal Records Act, not just the Presidential Records Act. This is "send the Archivist of the United States on a five-day bender" territory.

(An aside but the automatic assumption by White people that all Pacific Islanders know each other is, to this Black observer, distressingly familiar.)

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"the automatic assumption by White people that all Pacific Islanders know each other" Lenny Bruce said it best in How to Relax Your Colored Friends at Parties: "ya... ya know the guy on the Cream of Wheat box?"

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Dear Abby -

I like this but I hate Cream of Wheat.

Whatever should I do?!

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Eat Malt-o-Meal

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Definition of hard pass.

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This is what gets me, the National Archives are basically librarians, they're not looking to put anyone in jail, just return the book you took out. Oh, sure, it's all a plot by the Satan-worshipping pedophile Deep State to get Donald Trump, let's send the librarians.

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NARA’s concerns are just the trigger as it were for counterintelligence issues. (Not a defense for our IC.)

Meanwhile, there’s an argument for locking FPOTUS up pending trial.

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You mean a legal one, not just that we the people deserve it for all the shit we've put up with.

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😂

Of course.

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They need to send the library cop from “Seinfeld.”

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“I don’t care what music a man listens to…rock was never my bag. But let me tell you something, mister—you put on a pair of shoes when you come in the New York Public Library!”

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Some idjit in my Twitter feed was trying to make the case that because they sent the librarians, that proves none of the crimes are serious. "This is nothing but process crimes," he kept saying, showing off a term he read somewhere once and did not understand, and ignoring half the words in the term.

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Never mind the librarians, what about the various intelligence communities who have to try to figure out who saw this stuff?

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Funny how no one has connected the boxes laying around with the stories running awhile back about how the place was infested with foreign intelligence agents. Pretty good bet most of the world has seen what’s in those boxes.

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I sure hope somebody at the DoJ is looking real hard at Jared, but as for the Orange One, it's clear that for the spy-on-a-budget the most unctuous of sweet talk perhaps delivered in the vicinity of a push-up bra is more than enough to get a peek at Israel's nuclear arms roster.

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