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Explainer: Politics and Classified Documents
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Explainer: Politics and Classified Documents

“Not exactly aliens at Area 51.”

Classified documents stored in a Mar-A-Lago bathroom will live in infamy, but it’s not the only intelligence scandal among politicians: Biden, Pence, and Hillary Clinton have also made headlines for their intelligence information.

Peter Meijer joins Mike Warren to break down the security issues with these documents and:

-There are levels to this – Classified, confidential, secret, top secret.

-Peter’s surprising insight into classified info

-Clinton, Biden, Pence, Trump: what they all have in common

-Over-classification problem?

-Online gamers and security clearances

-Trumps says “No.”

-Will Peter run again?

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Michael Warren

Michael Warren is a senior editor at The Dispatch and is based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the company in 2023, he was an on-air reporter at CNN and a senior writer at the Weekly Standard. When Mike is not reporting, writing, editing, and podcasting, he is probably spending time with his wife and three sons.