Tuesday, January 31, 2023

The media is blowing Biden’s documents ‘scandal’ out of proportion

 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/31/media-biden-documents-coverage-out-of-proportion-margaret-sullivan

It’s debatable if Biden’s mishandling of documents – and more recently that of former vice-president Mike Pence – warrants much attention at all, much less the full-bore media blitz it’s getting.

“The bigger scandal here,” said Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, is the over-classification of information; the US government puts its classified stamp on 50m documents a year. In an interview with the Guardian’s David Smith last week, Jaffer called that system of secrecy “totally broken in ways that are bad not just for national security, but for democracy”.

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