A Watergate-era honor system for safeguarding top-secret information in the White House clearly isn¡¯t working.
Revelations that Donald Trump, Joe Biden and now Mike Pence have mishandled classified documents expose the pitfalls of trusting presidents and vice presidents to hand over the nation¡¯s secrets appropriately when they leave office.
They also raise the question of how many more documents will be discovered in the homes of the nation¡¯s top leaders. Trump took boxes with him to his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago. Smaller set of material marked classified have been uncovered in Biden¡¯s Wilmington, Delaware, home and at the Penn Biden Center in Washington.
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