Well, this is total BS. The mishandling has happened before documents get to the National Archives. It was the National Archives who called out the missing Trump documents. Moreover, the NA is not the source agency for the documents. They must rely on records obtained from other agencies. If they receive no record of a document even being produced, how can they track it down? The problem is not NA.
On the other hand, if Wuerker is commenting that perhaps the NA does not have enough people to do their job, then this is probably true. They have a little over 2500 people on staff.
Just two numbers give you an idea of the workload from 2019.
More than 1.1 million cubic feet of new materials shelved
More than 1.1 million cubic feet disposed
Let’s just throw out a random number of documents per cubic foot — say 25
So maybe some 30 million documents added and 30 million disposed of?
Looks like maybe 1% of documents might be classified. so 300,000 added and 300,000 destroyed. Each of those produces paperwork. And I have probably underestimated the number of documents.
Well, this is total BS. The mishandling has happened before documents get to the National Archives. It was the National Archives who called out the missing Trump documents. Moreover, the NA is not the source agency for the documents. They must rely on records obtained from other agencies. If they receive no record of a document even being produced, how can they track it down? The problem is not NA.
On the other hand, if Wuerker is commenting that perhaps the NA does not have enough people to do their job, then this is probably true. They have a little over 2500 people on staff.
check out the numbers for the National Archives.
https://www.archives.gov/about/info/national-archives-by-the-numbers
Just two numbers give you an idea of the workload from 2019.
More than 1.1 million cubic feet of new materials shelved
More than 1.1 million cubic feet disposed
Let’s just throw out a random number of documents per cubic foot — say 25
So maybe some 30 million documents added and 30 million disposed of?
Looks like maybe 1% of documents might be classified. so 300,000 added and 300,000 destroyed. Each of those produces paperwork. And I have probably underestimated the number of documents.