Mar-A-Lago docs could have caused 'massive firestorm' and 'gotten people killed' if they leaked

[LetMyPeopleVote]

These documents had sensitive information including sources material that could get people killed or cause the US to lose the benefit of a source

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https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-classified-documents-2657901853/

The documents that Donald Trump hoarded at Mar-A-Lago could have caused a "massive firestorm" and gotten people killed if they had somehow leaked out, according to new reports.

The New York Times reported that more than 300 documents with classified markings have been recovered from the former president's home, including some marked with the highest level of classification, and NBC News reporter explained the seriousness of those to MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

"In terms of a lot of people might be looking at this and going, he was president, he had access to all the secrets, so what if he accidentally had some classified documents or even intentionally in his house?" Dilanian said. "But we're talking about some documents marked TSSCI, sensitive compartmented information. I have been asking around just to reaffirm my understanding of how sensitive those documents are. Those are documents, the reason they're compartmented is because they could betray and likely would betray the sources of information, either a human source or a technical source."

"They could literally -- the disclosure of those could get people killed," he added, "so we're talking about the most sensitive documents and at least one set of documents there that the government has, and any time there's any kind of spill or disclosure in the real world of those kinds of documents, it's a massive firestorm. The federal government swoops in and does everything they can to secure this stuff. You can only look at them in special facilities, even within the Capitol or other kinds of buildings, you have to go to a special room to look at those documents. That's how sensitive some of those documents allegedly in Trump's possession were."

[Irish_Dem]

1. These documents were unsecured in a moving van and at the MAL hope/resort.

Anyone could have had access to them.

That is not even taking into account what Trump did with them when in the WH.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

2. Could have?

Or already has?
I ask this because the US/UK intelligence services had the Russian Govt and the Russian Military penetrated, that's why the US/UK knew almost down to the day and time of when the Ukraine invasion would start, now there are reports out of Moscow that Russian commanders and Russian Govt officials are being sacked, arrested, jailed or outright disappearing, so there's a better than even chance that the Russians did get some info on who the spies were and are now removing them and that info, IMO, likely came from those docs that Benedict Donald stole.

[Pantagruel]

3. Good spycraft demands

you assume the info has been compromised. Huge problem accompanied by a huge unnecessary cost. GOP simply can't govern.

[spanone]

4. If they leaked? That's assuming they haven't.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. The intelligence agencies are doing a damage assessment as if these documents were leaked

The intelligence agencies have to assume that the documents were leaked in order to evaluate if sources need to be protected

[spanone]

7. Makes all the sense in the world.

[orthoclad]

5. This is what happens when

a biznessman/CEO/capitalist gets political office. He treats the office like it's his personal biz.
I've never understood that trope about needing biz experience to run the country. We've now seen what happens when the country is run like a biz.