Trump and government secrecy

[John Clark]

Remember the big fuss Donald Trump made over Hillary Clinton's email server?  The government has 4 general classification levels ,Top Secret, Secret, Confidential and Sensitive, there was never anything on Clinton's server that was higher than "sensitive". For a year and a half the government had been trying to get back classified documents that Trump has been keeping in cardboard boxes in an unsecured storage room at his golf club.  Finally on June 3 of this year lawyers for Trump returned an envelope with a few classified documents in them and said UNDER OATH that after an "extensive search" that's all the classified material they could find. However the government received a tip (from who we do not know) that the lawyers were lying  and there were more secret documents there. So on August 8 FBI agents raided Mar-A-Lago and after just a few minutes of searching they found one document that was "secret" and 5 that were not only top-secret but Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI); that means documents that are only supposed to be looked at in specially prepared super secure rooms called a SCIF, a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility. Mar-A-Lago had a SCIF when Trump was president but it hasn't had one since he left the presidency and Donald Trump no longer has the clearance to even read stuff that is "sensitive" , much less documents marked Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI). Below is a photo taken by the FBI on August 8:

John K Clark

[Stuart LaForge]

Aside from negligence, sloppiness, or lack of professionalism, there is a possibility that the record loss of CIA operatives during Trump's administration could be pointing toward a more sinister reason behind all the classified records that Trump has been hoarding. He might have been selling the information to foreign governments.

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/27/2119157/-Intelligence-agencies-concerned-that-Trump-has-been-leaking-information-on-U-S-spies-overseas

Excerpt:

"In what may be the most shocking story to emerge from the entire Mar-a-Lago document scandal, The New York Times is reporting that officials at intelligence agencies fear that among the classified information Donald Trump stole was details on U.S. assets embedded in foreign countries. The names, locations, and even the existence of such assets is among the most guarded secrets of the nation. But something mysterious has been happening over the last few years, with an unusual number of foreign sources being killed or arrested.

In the past, officials have worried that documents leaked by outlets like WikiLeaks might, either purposely or intentionally, reveal the identity of U.S. sources, putting their lives at risk. But now, intelligence agencies have a greater concern: A man who has a horde of stolen documents, connections to numerous hostile governments, and a frequently expressed disdain for both sources and the intelligence community. Put it all together, and you get one of the most amazing front pages in recent years."

Betraying the very operatives and agents that work for him is pretty low, even for Trump. I hope this is just a coincidence.

Stuart LaForge