The Washington Post reports:
A document describing a foreign government’s military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities, was found by FBI agents who searched former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and private club last month, according to people familiar with the matter, underscoring concerns among U.S. intelligence officials about classified material stashed in the Florida property.
Some of the seized documents detail top-secret U.S. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them. Documents about such highly classified operations require special clearances on a need-to-know basis, not just top-secret clearance. Some special-access programs can have as few as a couple dozen government personnel authorized to know of an operation’s existence.
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Some of the seized documents detail top-secret U.S. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them. https://t.co/HpRkOWH1eY
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 7, 2022
Presuming this bears out, it means Trump’s position is that he declassified the ultra-sensitive nuclear secrets of a foreign nation. https://t.co/48pcQfoPYU
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 7, 2022
Here’s Trump’s lawyer mocking the idea that the stolen documents included nuclear secrets *literally this morning.*pic.twitter.com/K0KnSb6Ivg
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) September 7, 2022
New reporting that Trump had highly classified information, including on foreign nuclear programs.
If true, it raises yet more questions.
Why would Trump take them to Mar-a-Lago?
Why did he refuse to return them?
The investigation must continue uninterrupted and unimpeded.
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) September 7, 2022
Donald Trump was, and remains, a U.S. national security disaster.
Anyone else in America holding highly classified nuclear information at their residence would have been arrested and indicted. And Trump as ex-President doesn’t even have a security clearance. https://t.co/HtfX27ro9x
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) September 7, 2022