0812

August 12, 2022 

In bed at 10, up at five, 3 or so pss, one glass of cognac before bed. Strange dream of attending some veterans affair with Geri somewhere in northern Illinois and of being requested to deliver closing or wrapping up comments.  No pen or paper to take or make notes, made some sort of incoherent comments to the few people still present at the end.  Then had great trouble finding car to get back to Wisconsin. Weird.

    We watched Lawrence O'Donnell's program last night with all the buzz being about the most important document sought in the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago being some sort of highly classified, 'compartmented' document relating to nuclear weapons or nuclear warfare.  Made a point of recording this morning's  Fox & Friends as well as my normal Morning Joe and CNN German/Keiller programs.

    Fox and Friends did a lot of 'howabouting' as expected.  How about Hillary Clinton's emails, how many documents Obama took with him (sounding like a reference to his presidential library material), how would the FBI treat documents in Michelle Obama's closet, etc.  Smarmy, prissy, mommy boy teacher's pet Jonathan Turley on, talking about how confusing, how contradictory some of the government's actions have been.

    Trump made no objection to unsealing the search warrant and inventory of seized documents/stuff.  One set of docs was labeled "TS/SCI documents" i.e., top secret/sensitive compartmented information."  There were 3 other sets of top secret docs, another 3 sets of 'secret' docs, and yet another 3 sets of 'confidential' docs.  My experience in the Marines with a 'top secret/cryto' clearance and assignment as Classified Materials Control Officer' in 2 of the units I served in persuaded me early on that people in the military at least, and probably throughout the government, are classification-happy, classifying and over-classifying information/documents way beyond any reasonable need to do so, at least with respect to 'secret' and 'confidential' docs.  I'm guessing we'll never know what documents Trump decided to take with him when he left government service, much less WHY he wanted to keep them in his possession and NOT in the National Archives.  Not mere 'souvenirs, I'm sure.

    I switched cars with Andy this afternoon, opting to take the 2005 Lexus instead of their Suburu.  I found out it was Anh's Dad's car, not John and Truc's as I had thought.  Very smooth and comfortable ride though it's impossible to see either the front or the rear of the vehicle while driving, seeming a bit like riding in a space capsule.

      I spent maybe an hour or 1 and 1/2 hours playing with acrylic paints and glazing liquid and a 2 inch foam roller.