Trump Had Human, Signals, and FISA Intelligence in an Insecure Room at Mar-a-Lago for a Year

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/08/26/trump-had-human-signals-and-fisa-intelligence-in-an-insecure-room-at-mar-a-lago-for-a-year/


Here’s the affidavit used to search the home and resort of the 45th President of the United States for classified documents he refused to return. My live tweet is here. I’ll do running updates in this thread. Here’s my earlier post on what the affidavit would include which accurately predicated a great deal of what was in here.

THE INVESTIGATION
The affidavit spends three paragraphs describing how, after NARA made a referral on February 9, 2022, the FBI opened an investigation to learn:

How classified documents were removed from the White House
Whether the storage facilities at Mar-a-Lago were suitable for storing classified materials
Whether there were anymore classified documents at Mar-a-Lago or elsewhere
Who had removed and retained the documents in unauthorized spaces

In a probable cause paragraph, it explains that there were 15 boxes with classified information at Mar-a-Lago and there was probable cause to believe there were more.

There’s a redacted paragraph that may describe the basis for suspecting obstruction. A later sentence in the probable cause paragraph describes that there likely will be evidence of obstruction at MAL.

The affidavit explains that this is an investigation into (among other things) 18 USC 793e — which I was among the first people to predict. This means that DOJ maintains that Trump was not authorized to have these documents.

*snip*



Well worth the read

[dchill]

1. Can't wait for the Tucker Hannity whatabout turnabout.

Millions of Trumpers await their talking points!

[Claustrum]

2. Their go-to right now is to condemn the "leaking to the press".

Even though that says the information were accurate....

[superpatriotman]

3. Oh, Ernesto?

Be a dear and grab some more folding chairs. They're in the shed behind the boxes marked SCI.

[doc03]

4. If he was going through the TS documents. I assume

the were scaterd around his residence where any of the maintenance staff could also seen them. I had to get an NSA clearance to work at AT&T in DC in the 60s did the maintenance staff have to have clearance to work at Mara Lardo?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. What did he transmit just to impress, and what did Jared sell?