FBI recovered 48 empty 'Classified' folders from Mar-a-Lago

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The Hill:

“The ideal scenario that would describe this is that the empty folders are actually for the records that are somewhere else in the boxes — that someone just didn’t keep them in the folder in the way they were supposed to, so they’re not actually out there in the wild somewhere,” said Kel McClanahan, executive director of National Security Counselors, a nonprofit law firm specializing in national security law.

“The least optimistic scenario is that they are nowhere to be found because they are already with someone else.”

miley-shocked003:

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“I think it’s possible it was a mistake. I think it’s possible they were folders that were holding the documents that were already found. But I worry it could have been folders that had other documents in them and now the mystery is where are the other documents? And that’s the scary part.” [said] Larry Pfeiffer, who previously served as senior director of the White House Situation Room and was chief of staff at the CIA...

...That includes the materials that expressly directed they be returned to the military.

“Anything that was in the folder should have been returned. The folder being there suggests it wasn’t,” Pfeiffer said.

Buttery males!