I always thought the FBI raid was to try to find the ICA document. It has been known for a long time that the hard copy of this document had disappeared and the CIA thought someone had taken it from the safe and smuggled it to President Trump.
Memory fails me.
where did a hard copy go, and who had it?
Unfortunately, 95% of the country is to concern with panem et circenses to be bothered with the decline of our country and the corruption of our institutions.
Exactly. American Thinker articles early on regarding the raid certainly aided me in shaping my thinking on this.
I was inclined to see it as weaponized government from the very beginning (giving the timing right before the election) and didn’t need any help in seeing that.
But early on, American Thinker articles (like the one from this author) pointed towards efforts by the Deep State to locate hard copies of...something...a report or finding related to...what? And with each passing day, it became clear to me they were attempting to corral a document that was out of the direct control of Deep State entities.
I have given it some thought, because I don’t understand exactly how a digital document is different from a hard copy with respect towards “protecting” it (I have no experience in security controls that a high security entity like the federal government uses, so this is all just conjecture and I could be all wet on this) until I concluded that a digital document residing in a secure system is far more security-controllable than any hard copy of a document, even a hard copy of a document in a guarded, restricted locked facility, in a Eurograde III safe.
Granted, digital security is always and forever suspect, because technology is in a state of constant flux, so I fully understand how it might seem controversial to say that.
Except for one thing: Access to a single physical document is, I believe, harder to control than a single digital document...especially in cases where it isn’t just one single document. The more documents you have to physically protect, the easier it is for “someone” to get access to it because there are many “most secure documents” that need access to from a variety of people, and they often have to be stored in a physical place with guards, gates, safes, etc. So actual security (not just physical security) is harder to maintain because it is not scalable and granular at the same time. IOW, physical security may be very broad in a huge federal facility guarded by men, mantraps, huge vaults, etc. but I don’t believe it can be given granularity of access the way digital can.
With a document that is stored digitally in a well secured and designed system using high levels of encryption and authentication, the granularity and logging of access to that single file is exquisite. So, it can be hidden away in an obscure location in a file system (like the humorous reference to the huge warehouse storing the Ark of The Covenant in the movie “Raiders of The Lost Ark”) where it is effectively hidden, and if anyone does search it out and try to access it, tripwires can alert people, etc.
Just musing on this. As I said, I could be all wrong, but having seen how physical security is often enough limited and flawed in a variety of ways, my view might be plausible.
The bottom line: having any kind of physical document outside the controlled digital domain, especially in the hands of someone like Donald Trump who would be willing to read it, act on it, and share it with the right people has to present such a risk to the Deep State perpetrators of government weaponization, conspiracy, and fraud that they would be wholly willing to fully wade boldly into illegality to obtain control of that physical document.