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Former CIA Director John Brennan joins Jen Psaki to discuss how damaging Donald Trump's handling of classified documents was to our national security. - Inside w/Jen Psaki - MSNBC - Aired on 06/11/2023.

Botany
(73,188 posts)The man was selling out America and America's intelligence network. How many people are now
dead because of Trump's actions?
Rhiannon12866
(227,975 posts)Meanwhile, we've seen the pix of the dozens of boxes of classified documents - where are they now? Have they been returned to the National Archives? And who is qualified to assess the danger that this information in the wrong hands could be to national security??
Irish_Dem
(63,804 posts)There is no way at this point to know which secrets have been released.
So they have to assume the worst in terms of their own security.
Trump's lax storage and handling of materials means that any one had access to secret documents.
And of course he disseminated and sold the secrets as well.
No of course we will never be told the entire ramifications of what Trump and Kushner have done.
It will be classified for a long time.
Rhiannon12866
(227,975 posts)And of course we won't learn who might have had access to our most dangerous secrets on the nightly news - but what I don't understand at all are those in government who certainly should know better dismissing this criminal behavior which could place both this country and our allies in serious danger as of no consequence. If I "get it," they certainly should!
Irish_Dem
(63,804 posts)It is a non issue for them obviously.
Their goal is total permanent power and access to all US assets.
By any and all means possible.
Even if they have to put our country in grave danger.
It is truly heart breaking and disgusting to see what half the US will do to get their way.
jaxexpat
(7,794 posts)I believe it is a reasonable suspicion to assume various "secret" agencies within the US government will be compelled to reexamine their means and methods of document/information security because of Trump's incredible and selfish stupidity. Suspicion that this episode will see the curators of precious information hold ever tighter the reins of their power to further isolate and shrink the list of who is actually privy to vital facts, important at large. Even beyond some petty rivalry and mistrust between and within agencies, will future heads of these various departments willingly share their critical knowledge with the executive and his/her minions? Something will be lost, missed because vital geopolitical integrity has been squandered by bad actors on a whim of madness.
There has never been a moment of threat to national security which was not followed by incidental increase in the insulation of the people from their nation's real placement in the political world. It is as darkness follows dusk. I believe it is in response to this reality that the elements of free speech and free press are held so highly, to the point of fantasy, in our personal experience of the constitution. A perfect national security would have, as it's result, the sensory deprivation of a whole nation. A democracy of voters in the dark. Of this, I worry.
cate94
(2,933 posts)And the constant moving. It is distracting and gave me motion sickness. Just saying.