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Recovered from Mar-a-Lago - 11 sets of classified documents. Dozens of excuses to follow. [1]
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Date: 2022-08-12
WSJ is reporting that the FBI recovered 20 boxes of items and 11 sets of classified documents from the search conducted at Mar-A-Lago for classified documents.
Some of the documents are marked TS (Top Secret, the highest classification level) and SCI (Sensitive Compartmented Information, which further restricts access and handling of TS documents).
How WSJ exclusively got its hands on this info is a mystery, since the DOJ has not released this info and other media outlets do not have this information. It is probably info contained in the warrant and receipts. Did trump give the documents to WSJ, Breitbart and Faux news?
x Items Seized from Mar-a-Lago:
20 boxes of items
11 sets of classified documents
Top secret documents
Sensitive Compartmented documents
Binders of photos
Clemency order for Roger Stone
Information about the “President of France"
A handwritten note
https://t.co/6ZIb8XB0SN — Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) August 12, 2022
From www.cnn.com/...
Federal agents reportedly seized one set of "top secret/SCI" documents, the highest level of classification. Agents took four sets of "top secret" documents, three sets of "secret" documents and three sets of "confidential" documents, the lowest level of classification, the Journal reported. It's not known what these classified documents were specifically about.
Other media outlets are now corroborating the story - x A search warrant viewed by POLITICO reveals that the FBI is investigating Donald Trump for a potential violation of the Espionage Act and removed classified documents from the former president’s Florida estate earlier this week
https://t.co/OkV7OnmrXk — POLITICO (@politico) August 12, 2022 The warrant itself was expected to be unsealed today around 3:00 p.m. x What will be “unsealed” is the warrant itself and the receipt/return of service listing items seized, documents Trump had. What will not be unsealed yet is the application and affidavit presented to the court to explain and justify the search. — Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) August 12, 2022 It looks like trump leaked the warrant himself, since reporting from right-wing media outlets contain names of FBI agents. x Trump apparently leaked the warrant to Breitbart. The DOJ had sought to redact or shield the names of agents involved. Trump took no caution. The Breitbart article has names of agents, which obviously puts a target on their back. Reprehensible. Trump needs to be stopped. Enough. — Don Lewis (@DonLew87) August 12, 2022 Trump is apparently under investigation for violations of 18 U.S.C. 793, the Espionage Act. x NEW via Breitbart: Trump under investigation per search warrant for:
18 USC 2071 — Concealment, removal or mutilation
18 USC 793 — Gathering, transmitting or losing defence information
18 USC 1519 — Destruction, alteration or falsification of records in Federal investigations — Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) August 12, 2022 The explanations and excuses and lies from trump and his acolytes keep shifting. We can expect some more shape-shifting as more information comes out.
The documents were all turned over to the FBI
If not, then they were not classified anyways
If they were classified, then trump declassified them
trump can declassify documents just by thinking about it
trump did not pack the boxes, so he does not know their contents
There is nothing classified about nuclear weapons, look up Google
But they were safe at Mar-A-Lago with an extra lock on the door
So what if they were classified, Obama did it too
But in any case, they were planted by Biden, Garland and the FBI
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x So let me see if I have this straight. The documents were all turned over to the FBI, besides none of them was classified, but anyway they had been declassified, still they were probably planted, and you can look up nuclear weapons on your phone, plus look at Hillary and Obama. — George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) August 12, 2022
The warrant and receipts from humanevents.com/...—
The fact-checkers have their hands busy keeping up with the tsunami of lies and deceptions from the right.
x Trump and allies: What about how Obama took 30 million records to Chicago!!!!!!!!!!!!
National Archives: We took the records to Chicago and maintain them there
Trump: Much of that Chicago haul is classified!!!!!!!!!!!!
National Archives: No
https://t.co/hpDj7zEdjt — Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 12, 2022
Check out this thread for a backgrounder on classification levels and how such documents are protected and handled.
x Yesterday I did this 🧵, but there's still some confusion.
There are 3 types of classification:
-Confidential (C) (I mistakenly put "classified" in earlier🧵)
-Secret (S)
-Top Secret (TS)
There's no "higher classification" than TS, but there is "more controlled access." 1/3
https://t.co/tIZR9cdbrO — Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) August 12, 2022
We live in dangerous times — not just because of trump, but because of his army of brown shirts and a republican party that has gone 100% fascist in its quest for power and wealth and is controlled by a group of sociopaths, both domestic and foreign.
Let’s fight back this ugly narrative from the lawless right to defend trump, a narrative that is getting uglier and uglier by the minute with calls for violence and calls to dismantle the state. Let’s seize the moment to educate the American public that trump and his enablers, which includes the entire republican party leadership, are modern-day Nazis, whose goal is to destroy our Democracy and the American way of life, so that they hold on to power and wealth. They are a vocal group, they are a minority, but they will remain a minority only if the majority fights back.
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