Posted on 09/07/2022 2:26:24 PM PDT by lowbridge
A bombshell Washington Post report reveals that FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate last month found a document describing a foreign government's military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities.
The report did not identify the foreign government named in the document.
The Post's report highlights the concerns of U.S. intelligence officials about classified material that Trump kept in the home.
"I think it's such a sensitive area that there are categories and subcategories of that kind of information. Some of it is essentially Department of Defense information that falls under the classified system of law. And obviously, when you talk about special access and talk about the nuclear capability with a foreign military agency, those are types of things that the government in no way wants spread around," said Washington Post reporter Devlin Barrett during an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper.
The Post also reported that some of the seized documents detailed top-secret U.S. operations that are so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them. Only the president, some cabinet members, or a near-cabinet-level official could authorize other officials to know the details.
"So some of the FBI agents who were on the scene in Mar-a-Lago, they didn't even have the clearance that would allow them to look at these documents," said Cooper.
"Correct and not just the agents," replied Barrett. "Some of the federal prosecutors involved in this matter also didn't automatically have the clearance to look at some of these materials."
Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Tuesday morning to blast the search, saying in part,"not only did the FBI steal my passports in the FBI Raid and Break-In of my home, Mar-a-Lago, but it has just been learned through court filings that they also
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Surely this time the leak must be true...
Was it Iran’s nuclear capabilities, funded by Obama/Biden?
It would be funny if Trump had the Iran nuclear deal (bearing Obama’s signature) printed out on tissue paper and was using it to wipe his a$$.
“ It is seeming more and more like Trump was the one who kept all these documents safe.”
Exactly! This shows the FBI can not be trusted at all. The whole bureau is a bunch of political hitmen with badges.
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