From a veteran CIA lawyer, a provocative analysis of the cases against two presidents for mishandling classified documents and a call to action against an American justice system that is spinning out of control. --

Washington's warnings -- American Stasi -- Part I. Matters of national security -- Classifying & protecting -- Espionage investigations & prosecutions -- Major mishandling - precedents, but not presidents -- Part II. The Biden cover-up -- Presidential Records Act -- From locked closet to the adjacent room -- Hur Report -- Part III. Trumping up espionage charges -- Turbulent threat to democracy -- Siege -- There are not going to be mistakes? -- Kidney punches & low blows -- Context & continuum -- Part IV. A uniform vigilance -- Taste of tyranny -- American values to venerate -- Reinforcing our edifice