Sunday, August 28, 2022

Fine, but...

In a letter obtained by POLITICO and dated Friday, [Director of National Intelligence Avril] Haines told House Oversight Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) that her office will lead an “assessment of the potential risk to national security that would result from the disclosure of the relevant documents.”

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It’s [...] the first known acknowledgment by the intelligence community of the potential harm caused by the missing documents, which prosecutors said Friday included human-source intelligence and information gathered from foreign intercepts. Top lawmakers have been clamoring for details about the substance of the documents since the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago, but so far neither the intelligence committees nor congressional leaders part of the so-called Gang of Eight have been briefed.

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The intelligence community’s review is likely to encompass whether any unauthorized individuals had access to the highly sensitive documents.
Are you kidding? Every person at Mar-a-Lago with knowledge of the location of the documentation, including Trump, had access to it.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has also asked the intelligence community to conduct a damage assessment related to Trump’s handling of the documents [...] . The panel’s chair, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), and vice chair, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), both signed onto the request.

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The Justice Department previously raised alarms about the lax security of the records within Trump’s estate. That question could also bear on the criminal probe, as Justice Department counterintelligence investigators determine whether the highly classified records were compromised in any way.

  Politico
Okay, that's well and good, but I do not want to hear Trumpies saying, "See? No harm" after the assesment. What he did was illegal as fuck, potentially damaging to national security, and he needs to be held accountable for once in his disgusting, unaccountable life.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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