If these had been stolen for profit, we’d be seeing them on eBay, and we are not. Someone scrubbed the documents so to remove embarrassing items, perhaps the deal with the Iranians in 1980, or evidence showing that Reagan knew of, and approved of, Iran-Contra.
The number of documents imply one of two things:
- There is a lot of skullduggery to be covered up.
- They took more things so that people would not get a good picture of what was stolen.
Or maybe a bit of both.