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Post by Admin on Aug 21, 2022 22:00:14 GMT
National Security Expert: Trump Had Classified Docs In ‘Hotel And Wedding Facility Basement’ 945,640 views Aug 20, 2022 Donald Trump and his team apparently have ever-evolving excuses about why classified documents, including some classified at the highest levels, were at his Mar-a-Lago residence. The latest? The former president's concern was keeping the documents safe. "Just a small number of random people had access to classified documents in the basement of what is essentially a hotel and wedding facility," MSNBC analyst Clint Watts gibes, adding, "What could possibly go wrong in that scenario?" National security lawyer Bradley P. Moss also joins The ReidOut with his analysis.
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Post by Admin on Aug 22, 2022 6:10:17 GMT
See Mar-a-Lago photos that have experts raising national security concerns 1,194,532 views Aug 19, 2022 A CNN review of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort raises new concerns over the home being able to meet the standards needed to store classified documents. CNN's Brian Todd reports. #CNN #News
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Post by Admin on Aug 23, 2022 22:17:29 GMT
Trump had more than 300 classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, report says 27,434 views Aug 23, 2022 Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked a federal judge Monday to halt the FBI's review of documents recovered from his Florida estate.
The National Archives found more than 700 pages of classified material — including “special access program materials,” some of the most highly classified secrets in the government — in 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in January, according to correspondence between the National Archivist and his legal team.
The May 10 letter — posted late Monday on the website of John Solomon, a conservative journalist and one of Trump’s authorized liaisons to the National Archives to review papers from his presidency — showed that NARA and federal investigators had grown increasingly alarmed about potential damage to national security caused by the warehousing of these documents at Mar-a-Lago, as well as by Trump’s resistance to sharing them with the FBI.
These records included 700 pages of classified material, according to the letter, sent by National Archivist Debra Wall to Trump’s attorney, Evan Corcoran, and it doesn’t include records recovered by the Justice Department and FBI during a June meeting and the Aug. 11 search of the Mar-a-Lago premises.
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Wall’s letter describes earlier correspondence in which Trump’s team objected to disclosing the contents of the 15 boxes to the FBI.
“As you are no doubt aware, NARA had ongoing communications with the former President’s representatives throughout 2021 about what appeared to be missing Presidential records, which resulted in the transfer of 15 boxes of records to NARA in January 2022,” Wall wrote. “In its initial review of materials within those boxes, NARA identified items marked as classified national security information, up to the level of Top Secret and including Sensitive Compartmented Information and Special Access Program materials.”
NARA aides did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the letter, and Corcoran could not immediately be reached.
The letter also revealed that an assessment of threats to national security posed by Trump’s possession of the documents was already underway, well before members of Congress were informed.
Senate Intelligence Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Vice Chair Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) have already asked the intelligence community to provide such an assessment, and the broader entity on Capitol Hill that’s privy to the most sensitive national security secrets has asked to view the documents themselves.
U.S. officials in the national security community expressed shock and concern at the former president’s cavalier treatment of classified material. One official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive topic, said they were astonished at the “recklessness” of the move.
It’s an “affront” to “those people who’ve spent their lives protecting and enforcing a rules-based order only to have someone come along and use his special access to unlawfully collect and retain highly classified documents,” the person said.
It can take up to a decade to declassify certain information, said one former defense official who still holds a security clearance, so the fact that Trump took hundreds of pages of classified material is “one of the worst things I’ve ever heard.”
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Post by Admin on Aug 24, 2022 21:27:52 GMT
National Archives wanted to share Mar-a-Lago classified docs for damage assessment months ago 336,584 views Aug 24, 2022 The National Archives told former President Donald Trump's legal team in May that it was sharing hundreds of pages of classified material it had retrieved in January with the FBI and other entities in the intelligence community so that an assessment could be done on potential damage from how the classified documents had been handled, according to a newly released letter. More than 100 documents classified documents, comprising more than 700 pages, were retrieved by the Archives from Mar-a-Lago in an initial batch of 15 boxes that were transported in January, according to the letter. #AC360 #CNN #KaitlinCollins
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Post by Admin on Aug 28, 2022 21:30:18 GMT
Brooks and Marcus on the Mar-a-Lago affidavit and Biden's student debt plan 201,588 views Aug 27, 2022 New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post editor Ruth Marcus join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week’s political news, including the newly unsealed documents that led to the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, President Biden's plan to eliminate student loan debt and how this week's primaries reshaped the November midterms.
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