system
A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
They werent looking, they were closing down an old office from his time as VP under Obama, where they discovered the first batch. Which led to them looking through every place Biden had work stations to go though his 80 years of collecting shit to see if any other classified documents that had been shoved in a "to do" folder that got dropped in storage were never properly returned. Which is where the remaining documents came from. Theres also an issue with the first set of people breaking down the office didnt have clearance to see what was inside the folders, which means they found one cache of clearly marked classified, which prompted them to change who was allowed to continue clearance to search for those specific type of documents.

its weird that if classified documents need to be returned like library books, they arent as well organized as the library, which they also run. I remember when the most important thing you had to do was return a vhs to Blockbuster before monday or else they'd send some heavy-hitter with a pipewrench to break your knee caps. How are any basic physical documents not recorded exactly who is holding it, and when it needs to be returned?
gpt
Because a portion of our elected officials are doing there best to shrink government agencies until it is all small enough to drown it in a bathtub.