It looks like the Trump Department of Defense has lots of documents to shred before they can continue the transition talks. I wonder if it has anything to do with the recent discovery of internet security breaches.
Reminds me of this quote from "Yes Minister"
James Hacker: How am I going to explain the missing documents to "The Mail"?
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Well, this is what we normally do in circumstances like these.
James Hacker: [reads memo] This file contains the complete set of papers, except for a number of secret documents, a few others which are part of still active files, some correspondence lost in the floods of 1967...
James Hacker: Was 1967 a particularly bad winter?
Sir Humphrey Appleby: No, a marvellous winter. We lost no end of embarrassing files.
Also apparently a similar real-life incident occurred when Hurricane Sandy wiped out a significant portion of an FBI record archive. Perhaps the wild fires of 2020 might just...well you know?