FBI searched Trump's home to look for NUCLEAR WEAPONS documents and other items, sources say

[Nevilledog]

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Holy shit, Trump was keeping top secret material about nuclear weapons at Mar-a-Lago. The raid on his property was absolutely warranted.

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5:10 PM · Aug 11, 2022

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Classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items FBI agents sought in a search of former president Donald Trump’s Florida residence on Monday, according to people familiar with the investigation.

Experts in classified information said the unusual search underscores deep concern among government officials about the types of information they thought could be located at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and potentially in danger of falling into to the wrong hands.

The people who described some of the material that agents were seeking spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. They did not offer additional details about what type of information the agents were seeking, including whether it involved weapons belonging to the United States or some other nation. Nor did they say if such documents were recovered as part of the search. A Trump spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Justice Department and FBI declined to comment.

Attorney General Merrick Garland said he could not discuss the investigation on Thursday. But in an unusual public statement at the Justice Department, he announced he had personally authorized the decision to seek court permission for a search warrant.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. WHY was he allowed to have these documents for over a year and a half?

The FBI certainly knew or should have known what he was capable of stealing and selling.

[Nevilledog]

4. I honestly don't know, unless they screwed up the classifications with intent to hide

[Irish_Dem]

7. The FBI dropped the ball big time.

They have the finest psych profilers in the world.

They certainly knew Trump was capable of stealing and selling classified material related to national security. And should have done some checking around.

Just like 1/6, they knew nothing.

[Nevilledog]

8. I seriously can't come up with a reason.

Unless they had him under surveillance and waited for him to make a move on selling them........

[Irish_Dem]

13. Aside from total incompetence, this is the only other explanation.

They knew he had the secrets, and recently learned he was making plans to sell them.
Had him under surveillance or wire tap.

And that is why they had to move now.

[moonscape]

2. Dollars to donuts it's

already in the wrong hands. Would be shocking if not. Hope they have evidence with whom it was shared. You know, a list …

[C_U_L8R]

3. Saudis, Russians and North Koreans could have paid handsomely.

This is unraveling fast. Follow the money.

[malaise]

5. Haul in Flynn et al

RFN!

[Nevilledog]

15. From Malcolm Nance long ago

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Flynn Secretly Paid $200,000 in Middle East Nuclear Scheme—Report - by Jeff Stein - SpyTalk

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[malaise]

16. Great link

Thanks

[jls4561]

6. Nukes?

What the hell was he gonna do with that information?

It ain’t exactly a love letter.

Or maybe it is.

“My dearest Kim Jong…..”

[Jarqui]

9. and those documents were just sitting there in his unlocked basement? ...nt

[Claustrum]

11. In a place that's open to anyone who pay a fee.....

Perfect place to store nuclear information /sarcasm

[dalton99a]

10. Fucking traitor

Material about nuclear weapons is especially sensitive and usually restricted to a small number of government officials, experts said. Publicizing details about U.S. weapons could provide an intelligence road map to adversaries seeking to build ways of countering those systems. And other countries might view exposing their nuclear secrets as a threat, experts said.

One former Justice Department official, who in the past oversaw investigations of leaks of classified information, said the type of top-secret information described by the people familiar with the probe would probably cause authorities to try to move as quickly as possible to recover sensitive documents that could cause grave harm to U.S. security.

“If that is true, it would suggest that material residing unlawfully at Mar-a-Lago may have been classified at the highest classification level,” said David Laufman, the former chief of the Justice Department’s counterintelligence section, which investigates leaks of classified information. “If the FBI and the Department of Justice believed there were top secret materials still at Mar-a-Lago, that would lend itself to greater ‘hair-on-fire’ motivation to recover that material as quickly as possible.”

[superpatriotman]

12. The revenge of the deep state

Or however they are about to spin this treasonous morherfucker

[Johnny2X2X]

14. This is terrifying!

Oh my god. Please tell me they recovered them!