'Information is power—and government officials everywhere are awash in it,' writes Jonathan Abel
that much harder and, simultaneously, it makes each secret seem less and less truly important. Think of it as a sort of classification inflation.
This story of bureaucratic bloat sets the background for how classified documents can go missing without any wrongdoing on the part of the person who possesses them. But the bureaucratic bloat narrative also raises its own set of questions: As one, why does the local library seems better at tracking its books than the federal government is at tracking its secrets?
It’s a fair question. And it certainly seems like dysfunction for the federal government to label some information as a secret, only to lose track of it for years. But criticism of the classification system’s dysfunction often fails to appreciate the true dilemma that the government faces with regards to its secrets. The goal of classifying information and protecting classified information is not simply to lock it away from adversaries.
Nor is it clear that bureaucratic clunkiness is the reason classified documents go missing. There are other plausible narratives, too. In the public debate about Trump’s classified records at Mar-a-Lago, there are two other prominent narratives of how the documents went missing. One is a political and personal story. It holds that officials at the very top of government see themselves as beyond the law. They may even see national secrets as their own secrets. As
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