Trump’s Documents and the Bob Kerrey Precedent
Commentary
For the better part of a decade, I worked as a cryptanalyst for the National Security Agency (NSA). In that position, I handled highly classified documents on a daily basis. All of the people I worked with took the responsibility of dealing with classified information seriously, and if they hadn’t, the consequences would have been severe.
For example, in one case, a retired former employee decided to write a book about the Cuban Missile Crisis. In his draft book, he mentioned some information that he had learned through his work in the intelligence community and, apparently, he assumed that it had been declassified….