Newsweek reports that the documents Trump stole include payroll records for US spies.

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Newsweek reports that the documents Trump stole include payroll records for US spies.

Exactly the kind of thing for which Putin or Saudi Arabia would pay the Trump family billions.

Was there a bidding war the Saudis won with their $2 billion to Jared?

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Exclusive: Trump Raid Documents Could Reveal Intel Sources on U.S. Payroll
The FBI sought to retrieve Top Secret docs dealing with "sources and methods"—information that Donald Trump does not have the authority to declassify.
10:48 AM · Aug 13, 2022

https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-trump-raid-documents-could-reveal-intel-sources-us-payroll-1733230

In pursuing the unprecedented search of Donald Trump's residence on Monday, the FBI was seeking to retrieve Top Secret and "compartmented" documents dealing with intelligence "sources and methods," two federal government sources tell Newsweek—documents with the potential to reveal U.S. intelligence sources, including human sources on the American government payroll.

This greatly complicates any public discussion of the documents or any substantiation of Trump's potential violation of U.S. law. The sources, who were briefed on the investigation, requested anonymity in order to discuss sensitive information.

"Compartmented" is a specific term meaning "classified information concerning or derived from intelligence sources, methods, or analytical processes, which is required to be handled within formal access control systems established by the Director of National Intelligence." It includes a variety of different access categories—for example, human, intercept, satellite sources—each of which limits how many people can know the nature of the compartment. One of the government sources says that "special access program" information was involved in the Mar-a-Lago case, a further category of information limited to an even smaller group of people.

Intelligence sources familiar with the classification system and the investigation say that neither the search warrant nor the inventory, if unsealed, will likely answer most people's questions about whether the search was necessary.

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I'll be interested to see if other news orgs pick this up. I'm not all in on believing something in Newsweek.

[leftieNanner]

1. I heard this yesterday from a different source (don't remember)

And Thom Hartmann is pretty reliable.

Edit to add: It's time for Jared to go through some things. IMHO

[unc70]

2. I thought the payroll for our spies was kept in a spreadsheet

That way it is easier to see and summarize all the data in one place!

I'm skeptical of Newsweek

[Irish_Dem]

3. Our covert agent networks took decades to build.

Trump could have destroyed them badly.

And he put agents in danger.

[Walleye]

4. Burning the identity of spies it's just simple enough for Trump to understand

[doc03]

5. It just seems like they caught him in the act of something,

in order for Garland and a judge to authorize the search. We may never know what.

[The Magistrate]

6. I Agree Caution Is Indicated, Ma'am

The headline outruns the article by a good distance.

"Documents with the potential to reveal U.S. intelligence sources, including human sources on the American government payroll," is hardly "documents Trump stole include payroll records for US spies."

[Nevilledog]

7. WaPo reported they had concerns about SIGINT, but little detail

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217036310


My gut says it's true, but my gut is really vengeful.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. People may have died or been killed due to TFG's stupidity and/or greed

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