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  We Should Not Become Inured to the Shock Dan Rather  and  Elliot Kirschner Aug 26 The Department of Justice has released the affidavit it used to obtain permission to search Mar-a-Lago and seize files from Donald Trump. The document fills in some details but leaves many questions unanswered, largely because it is heavily redacted — as it should be. The sanctity of the investigation demands it. So does the security of the nation. What we knew before has been further confirmed — Trump absconded with hundreds of classified documents. We now know these were incredibly sensitive and included information on clandestine human sources and secrets not to be shared with foreign governments. We may never know the documents' exact contents — that’s how sensitive this material is.  What is so striking, as many others have observed, is that as president, Trump was notoriously uninterested in details. He doesn’t read. He certainly doesn’t pore over policy details. He is famous (o...