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To: unclewest who wrote (55267)	7/20/2004 1:03:01 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

Getting clearance to read a document in a classified vault or secure area is not clearance to remove the document. He knows that. Of course he knows that. Getting clearance to read a document in a secure area means just that. Are you suggesting that they might have made an exception for him had he just asked? The reason I recognize this as one possible explanation among many is that I've been there. I've been expected to do analysis on materials that I could only look at in secure areas, couldn't copy, couldn't take notes. It's damned impossible to do the job right under those conditions. When I was in that position I always figured that if the people who tasked me didn't care enough about the product to allow me to do the job right even though I'd made clear the difficulties, then I'd do just as good a job as I could under the circumstances and not worry unduly about the lost opportunity. But I can imagine being faced with something too important to brush off that way and being tempted to do the job right. So I throw that out as a possibility, one of many. I'm not saying I favor that explanation, only that we don't have enough information to judge. I think we need to ask the person he inadvertently discarded them to If he passed the documents along to someone, why not make a copy and pass that along returning the original or original copy as the case may be? That's why it's important whether the missing documents are originals or copies. If they were copies, then it isn't likely that he "inadvertently discarded them to" anyone. If they were originals, then we have quite a scandal on our hands.