The head of the National Archives needs to be fired.

[moniss]

21. Great questions

and usually one or more assistants would be charged with getting together files for meetings and this may likely be where the first breakdown of control begins. Many years ago I was an assistant to a guy in a corporation. He would insist on taking originals of documents and then I would have to fight to get them back. Sometimes never did. Then months later he would ask for the original and we would have the back and forth about how he never returned it to me. Also despite people looking for a document there is only so loud an assistant can be on the matter before you get replaced. Also if these folks get too much workload then things really can go haywire. So they take them home, hand them off to others at the meeting and then don't remember who they gave it to, the secondary recipient passes it on etc. and now where it is nobody knows and they don't want to own up to it because they might get heat for having it and not updating the chain-of-custody records. So it sits buried in a drawer etc. Meanwhile the assistant gets chewed on about being ineffective in maintaining control. I don't miss being someones assistant.