I used to work in a secure facility and here's the ugly truth about how Congress handles classified documents
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I served in the military near the end of the Cold War and my primary assignment was in a 'SCIF' which stands for a 'Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.'
The way in which we all access and manage classified information needs to be reformed quickly, both through legislative action and cultural and administrative change. Democrat Chrissy Houlahan represents Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District of the United States House of Representatives. She earned her engineering degree from Stanford with an ROTC scholarship that launched her service in the U.S. Air Force. After graduating from Stanford, Houlahan spent three years on Air Force active duty at Hanscom Air Force Base working on air and space defense technologies. She left active duty in 1991 and served in the Air Force Reserves before separating from the service in 2004 as a captain. Houlahan serves on the Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees.
We would walk into the vault every day for work with nothing in our hands. No briefcases, work materials, newspapers, technology, etc. were allowed. And if something happened to pass through, standard operating procedure was that it was forever stuck there -- in SCIF purgatory -- presumably never to re-emerge.