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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHouse Republican says classified Mar-a-Lago nuclear material is available 'on your own phone'
By Brandon Gage, Alternet
Published August 12, 2022
United States Congressman Mike Turner (R-Ohio) suggested on Friday that the nuclear documents that the Federal Bureau of Investigation reportedly recovered from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago mansion in Palm Beach, Florida during the execution of a search warrant on Monday are no big deal.
"I can tell you that there are a number of things that are classified that fall under the umbrella of nuclear weapons but that are not necessarily things that are truly classified," Turner, who serves on the House Intelligence Committee, told reporters at a press conference. "Many of them you can find on your own phone as we stand here and if they fall into that category, they're not an imminent national security threat that would rise to the level of, you have to raid Donald Trump's home and spend nine hours there."
There are "two types of classification," according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's website. "The first type, known as national security information, is information that is classified by an Executive Order. Its release would damage national security to some degree. The second type, known as restricted data, is information that is classified by the Atomic Energy Act. It would assist individuals or organizations in designing, manufacturing, or using nuclear weapons. Access to both types of information is restricted to authorized persons who have been properly cleared and have a 'need to know' the information for their official duties. For additional detail, see Classified Information."
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Hey zippy and your fellow supporters and enablers of the "guy" in Mar a Lago that has a Espionage Act charge wrapped around is cheeseburger waist, ......
Got question for you why don't you just head on over to Wright Air Force Base and ask for the launch codes of the bombers and planes that are on the ready flight line and ask them if they have nuclear tipped bombs on them and how many are the flight line, go ask and see if the base commander will give you that "classified information".....and then ask if you can get that on your phone.....you have no clue what your talking about and you should be voted out of office....
haele
(12,676 posts)Better not be anything to do with any classified materials, even just those with names, phone numbers and zodiac signs of various people.
Haele
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)ColinC
(8,329 posts)Who's gonna tell him?
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)FarPoint
(12,437 posts)I am ashamed that he is my US rep....." PUKE".
imanamerican63
(13,812 posts)msongs
(67,441 posts)blogslug
(38,016 posts)Even if the info in the docs was unclassified, TFG wasn't supposed to have it. This property was not his to take.
louis-t
(23,297 posts)and have a press conference to reveal them to the public. See how that goes.
unblock
(52,317 posts)That said, there are other statutes that may apply as well for classified documents.
Jim__
(14,083 posts)... look it up on their phone. Is that what he told you, Congressman Mike?
unblock
(52,317 posts)Thing is though, that doesn't make it legal to steal those documents.
Anyone involved in removing classified material from a secure facility to a non-secure such as mar-a-lago has committed probably more than one federal felony.
It doesn't matter if the classified information is commonly known.
That said, I'm willing to bet that among all those boxes is some very highly classified intel, even if some of it is of no major consequence to national security. It takes months to vet such material. You don't just take a couple dozen boxes.
walkingman
(7,660 posts)ForgedCrank
(1,782 posts)irrelevant.
It doesn't matter what was or wasn't recovered. You don't know until you LOOK for it.
So how does he think we find that out without a 9 hour search that he's complaining about?
Coventina
(27,172 posts)I have it right here!!!!!
jcgoldie
(11,645 posts)The old they were just run of the mill unimportant bottom of the birdcage type nothingburger top secret pertaining to nuclear weapons documents argument well played Turner!
Bristlecone
(10,133 posts)chillfactor
(7,584 posts)really taking a hit. Deteriorates more every day.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)they didn't say that about Hillary's emails did they