i think it's all sitting in archive under physical and digital lock and key, so you have a lot of potentially defiant people standing in your way. if you just pick some random low level guy he won't have access.
but you could march in with an army at your back i suppose, and order each one of them to tell you where is the data, unlock the door, plug in that hard drive, enter the encryption key, etc. i agree he probably has authority to do this but of course there would be a potentially very destabilizing counter move by the deep state if he tries
there still must be a chain of command though that limits access. eg the guy who walks in to do service on the HVAC system in the server room at the national archives, does not do so unescorted, and without many layers of clearance, and high-up people unlocking the doors themselves. high up people who would inevitably be political agents no matter how non-partisan the nat'l archives claims to be
i think it's all sitting in archive under physical and digital lock and key, so you have a lot of potentially defiant people standing in your way. if you just pick some random low level guy he won't have access.
but you could march in with an army at your back i suppose, and order each one of them to tell you where is the data, unlock the door, plug in that hard drive, enter the encryption key, etc. i agree he probably has authority to do this but of course there would be a potentially very destabilizing counter move by the deep state if he tries
there still must be a chain of command though that limits access. eg the guy who walks in to do service on the HVAC system in the server room at the national archives, does not do so unescorted, and without many layers of clearance, and high-up people unlocking the doors themselves. high up people who would inevitably be political agents no matter how non-partisan the nat'l archives claims to be