Trump was extremnely careless with handling of very sensitive, highly classified information

[exGOPer]

Former senior intelligence officials said in interviews that during the Trump administration, highly classified intelligence about sensitive topics, including about intelligence-gathering on Iran, was routinely mishandled. One former official said the most highly classified information often ended up in the hands of personnel who didn’t appear to have a need to possess it or weren’t authorized to read it.

That former official also said signals intelligence — intercepted electronic communications such as emails and phone calls of foreign leaders — was among the type of information that often ended up with unauthorized personnel. Such intercepts are among the most closely guarded secrets because of what they can reveal about how the United States has penetrated foreign governments.

A person familiar with the inventory of 15 boxes taken from Mar-a-Lago in January indicated that signals intelligence material was included in them. The precise nature of the information was unclear.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/11/garland-trump-mar-a-lago/

 

[Sprout]

Former senior intelligence officials said in interviews that during the Trump administration, highly classified intelligence about sensitive topics, including about intelligence-gathering on Iran, was routinely mishandled. One former official said the most highly classified information often ended up in the hands of personnel who didn’t appear to have a need to possess it or weren’t authorized to read it.

That former official also said signals intelligence — intercepted electronic communications such as emails and phone calls of foreign leaders — was among the type of information that often ended up with unauthorized personnel. Such intercepts are among the most closely guarded secrets because of what they can reveal about how the United States has penetrated foreign governments.

A person familiar with the inventory of 15 boxes taken from Mar-a-Lago in January indicated that signals intelligence material was included in them. The precise nature of the information was unclear.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/11/garland-trump-mar-a-lago/

A bit more color, now if we have spies dying,..

https://twitter.com/x/status/1558066207290494979

 

[easymon1]

This is nice. Sprotentott and Gopey. Glad we've got you boy's attention together.
Have either of you two had what it takes to respond to this simple Yes / No question?

 

[easymon1]

"It seems that U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies are lately facing a rise in foreign espionage directed at California’s Silicon Valley. That’s according to a recent story by Zach Dorfman in Politico, which brought the case to light. Mr. Dorfman reported:

China, for example, is certainly out to steal U.S. technology secrets, noted former intelligence officials, but it also is heavily invested in traditional political intelligence gathering, influence and perception-management operations in California. Former intelligence officials told me that Chinese intelligence once recruited a staff member at a California office of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, and the source reported back to China about local politics...According to four former intelligence officials, in the 2000s, a staffer in Senator Dianne Feinstein’s San Francisco field office was reporting back to [China’s Ministry of State Security]. While this person, who was a liaison to the local Chinese community, was fired, charges were never filed against him. (One former official reasoned this was because the staffer was providing political intelligence and not classified information—making prosecution far more difficult.) The suspected informant was “run” by officials based at China’s San Francisco Consulate, said another former intelligence official. The spy’s handler “probably got an award back in China” for his work, noted this former official, dryly.
Was there any response by the U.S. government? This column has the distinct impression that both parties are now concerned about foreign adversaries seeking to influence U.S. politics, yet the reporting so far suggests that getting fired is the only sanction potential spies need to fear. The San Francisco Chronicle has more:

Besides driving her around when she was in California, the staffer also served as gofer in her San Francisco office and as a liaison to the Asian American community, even attending Chinese Consulate functions for the senator...The FBI apparently concluded the driver hadn’t revealed anything of substance.
How sure can anyone be of this conclusion given years of access? The local CBS affiliate in San Francisco, KPIX, notes that Ms. Feinstein was not just any politician, but the principal consumer of classified briefings to Congress:

Feinstein — who was Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee at the time — was reportedly mortified when the FBI told her she’d (mortified when she was Busted, LOL, my comment on typical lying Democrat Party Hypocrite behavior) be [sic] infiltrated.Investigators reportedly concluded the driver hadn’t leaked anything of substance and Feinstein forced him to retire.Former FBI agent and KPIX 5 security analyst Jeff Harp said he was not surprised.“Think about Diane Feinstein and what she had access to,” said Harp. “One, she had access to the Chinese community here in San Francisco; great amount of political influence. Two, correct me if I’m wrong, Dianne Feinstein still has very close ties to the intelligence committees there in Washington, D.C.”
Mr. Harp is correct. Ms. Feinstein remains on the Senate intelligence committee.

***"
https://www.wsj.com/articles/dianne-feinstein-and-the-spy-1533578452

 

[Sprout]

"It seems that U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies are lately facing a rise in foreign espionage directed at California’s Silicon Valley. That’s according to a recent story by Zach Dorfman in Politico, which brought the case to light. Mr. Dorfman reported:

China, for example, is certainly out to steal U.S. technology secrets, noted former intelligence officials, but it also is heavily invested in traditional political intelligence gathering, influence and perception-management operations in California. Former intelligence officials told me that Chinese intelligence once recruited a staff member at a California office of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, and the source reported back to China about local politics...According to four former intelligence officials, in the 2000s, a staffer in Senator Dianne Feinstein’s San Francisco field office was reporting back to [China’s Ministry of State Security]. While this person, who was a liaison to the local Chinese community, was fired, charges were never filed against him. (One former official reasoned this was because the staffer was providing political intelligence and not classified information—making prosecution far more difficult.) The suspected informant was “run” by officials based at China’s San Francisco Consulate, said another former intelligence official. The spy’s handler “probably got an award back in China” for his work, noted this former official, dryly.
Was there any response by the U.S. government? This column has the distinct impression that both parties are now concerned about foreign adversaries seeking to influence U.S. politics, yet the reporting so far suggests that getting fired is the only sanction potential spies need to fear. The San Francisco Chronicle has more:

Besides driving her around when she was in California, the staffer also served as gofer in her San Francisco office and as a liaison to the Asian American community, even attending Chinese Consulate functions for the senator...The FBI apparently concluded the driver hadn’t revealed anything of substance.
How sure can anyone be of this conclusion given years of access? The local CBS affiliate in San Francisco, KPIX, notes that Ms. Feinstein was not just any politician, but the principal consumer of classified briefings to Congress:

Feinstein — who was Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee at the time — was reportedly mortified when the FBI told her she’d (mortified when she was Busted, LOL, my comment on typical lying Democrat Party Hypocrite behavior) be [sic] infiltrated.Investigators reportedly concluded the driver hadn’t leaked anything of substance and Feinstein forced him to retire.Former FBI agent and KPIX 5 security analyst Jeff Harp said he was not surprised.“Think about Diane Feinstein and what she had access to,” said Harp. “One, she had access to the Chinese community here in San Francisco; great amount of political influence. Two, correct me if I’m wrong, Dianne Feinstein still has very close ties to the intelligence committees there in Washington, D.C.”
Mr. Harp is correct. Ms. Feinstein remains on the Senate intelligence committee.

***"
https://www.wsj.com/articles/dianne-feinstein-and-the-spy-1533578452

I didn't think this day would come but here we are. I applaud your reference to a credible source, even with your editorialized formatting. Maybe there is hope for you yet.

The false equivalency you are implying is that DT's current woes are comparable to Feinstein's driver. It's just "whataboutism" that fails the simplest scrutiny.

 

[exGOPer]

“Mr. President… why are you taking those files on the location of every nuclear silo in the U.S.?”

“Uhhhhhh… it’s homework… “

 

[Mercor]

“Mr. President… why are you taking those files on the location of every nuclear silo in the U.S.?”

“Uhhhhhh… it’s homework… “

Remember at airports they used to ask you if you packed your own bags and did any else have access to the bags....Trump would have to answer no
People from the GSA would help Presidents move out....Could the CIA or DNC or The Deep State have someone stick documents in these boxes.

Apparently Trump or his people never touched the boxes at Mari-lago so they would not know what was packed

 

[Cuddles]

Remember at airports they used to ask you if you packed your own bags and did any else have access to the bags....Trump would have to answer no
People from the GSA would help Presidents move out....Could the CIA or DNC or The Deep State have someone stick documents in these boxes.

Apparently Trump or his people never touched the boxes at Mari-lago so they would not know what was packed

Preposterous, the public's known of these boxes for over a year.

 

[exGOPer]

Remember at airports they used to ask you if you packed your own bags and did any else have access to the bags....Trump would have to answer no
People from the GSA would help Presidents move out....Could the CIA or DNC or The Deep State have someone stick documents in these boxes.

Apparently Trump or his people never touched the boxes at Mari-lago so they would not know what was packed

This was yesterday's excuse, Trump has moved on to 'I ordered them declassified'.

 

[exGOPer]

“At least one lawyer for former President Donald Trump signed a written statement in June asserting that all material marked as classified and held in boxes in a storage area at Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and club had been returned to the government,” the New York Times reports.

“The written declaration was made after a visit on June 3 to Mar-a-Lago by Jay I. Bratt, the top counterintelligence official in the Justice Department’s national security division.”

“The existence of the signed declaration, which has not previously been reported, is a possible indication that Mr. Trump or his team were not fully forthcoming with federal investigators about the material.”