The Real Differences Between the Biden and Trump Document Troves

Unfortunately, at the upper levels of our government nearly every piece of paper is 'classified' at some level or bears other protective markings. Even more unfortunately, at that level, nearly everyone has some magical high level clearance and everyone presumes that everyone else has the clearance to see and handle whatever is passing through their office.

One result is that no one pays any real attention to security markings on documents, instead people think in terms of whether or not any particular document is potentially embarrassing to them or their boss. THOSE documents get the highest level of security and attention, anything else is just routine minutiae to be filed or passed along.