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A Thrift Store Sold Australia's Classified Documents.

posted by janrinok on Thursday February 01 2018, @06:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the but-the-cabinet-was-locked-your-Honour! dept.

realDonaldTrump writes:

Filing cabinets containing thousands of classified documents from the Australian government ended up being sold at a secondhand shop, prompting government officials Wednesday to launch an investigation into how the highly sensitive documents were disposed of.

The cache of documents was obtained by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, which reported the two cabinets were sold by a Canberra furniture shop at a discount price because they were locked and no one could find keys." http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/01/31/top-secret-files-left-in-filing-cabinets-sold-at-second-hand-shop.html

Nearly all the files are classified, some as "top secret" or "AUSTEO", which means they are to be seen by Australian eyes only.

But the ex-government furniture sale was not limited to Australians — anyone could make a purchase. And had they been inclined, there was nothing stopping them handing the contents to a foreign agent or government.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 01 2018, @08:21PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 01 2018, @08:21PM (#631660)

    Good old typewriter documents. These days the data is sent directly to TelAviv without delay for safe keeping.

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday February 01 2018, @10:51PM (1 child)

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday February 01 2018, @10:51PM (#631740)

    Saying TelAviv (no hyphen?) makes you officially an enemy of the US government.
    http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/trump-countries-jerusalem-move-enemies-180131130537414.html [aljazeera.com]

    • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday February 02 2018, @12:40AM

      by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Friday February 02 2018, @12:40AM (#631796) Homepage Journal

      I have great affection for Israel and its people. It's truly the land of opportunity. Tel Aviv is a tremendous city. Ivanka -- my daughter -- loves it. I planned a beautiful project for Tel Aviv, it was going to be the tallest tower. Trump Tower Tel Aviv. But it never happened. Because the people I was doing it with, Crescent Heights, turned out to be a bunch of crooks. They bought the best location, the Elite chocolate factory in Ramat Gan -- it's Tel Aviv adjacent. Great. But they broke our contract, they sold the land to somebody else. So I sued them. No tower!