Trump's ex-chief of staff said it's hard to understand how such highly classified documents ended up

[Quixote1818]

Trump's ex-chief of staff said it's hard to understand how such highly classified documents ended up at Mar-a-Lago and that they are 'not accidentally moved anywhere'

[e-mail] (Kelsey Vlamis) - 9h ago

Some of items recovered at Trump's Mar-a-Lago were classified TS/SCI, court records said.
Mick Mulvaney said such records are so "serious" that folks are supposed to track their location.
"It's really hard to understand how it gets there in the first place," Mulvaney said of Mar-a-Lago.
A former chief of staff to President Donald Trump said it's hard to understand how some the classified documents that were said to have been seized from Mar-a-Lago ended up there.

Mick Mulvaney, who served as Trump's acting chief of staff from January 2019 to March 2020, appeared on CNN Friday to discuss the materials that were seized during the August 8 raid on Trump's Florida residence. According to court records, the FBI recovered 11 sets of classified documents.

When asked if he was concerned about the documents, Mulvaney said one thing that caught his attention was that among the list of recovered materials were items labeled Top Secret Sensitive Compartmented Information, or TS/SCI, which requires the highest levels of security clearance.

More: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-ex-chief-of-staff-said-it-s-hard-to-understand-how-such-highly-classified-documents-ended-up-at-mar-a-lago-and-that-they-are-not-accidentally-moved-anywhere/ar-AA10Tp9q?ocid=NL_ENUS_A1_00010101_1_1&bep_ref=1&bep_csid=53307

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. What a fucking crock. Like he doesn't know Trump had plenty of eager enablers!

[gratuitous]

2. One thing's for sure: It didn't happen by accident

And the responsibility for this egregious breach of security has to go to the former guy.

[brush]

3. Yes, trump stole them pure and simple. Obviously...

he had help getting them out of the scif/WH, and in smuggling them to Florida and storing them.

And someone advised which docs to take...or should I say which docs had monetary value?

[triron]

4. CNN is stupid beyond belief.

WTF are they asking Mullaney for? His answers were BS.

[Scrivener7]

5. He has a point about it not being comprehensible how they got out of the

building. He is ridiculous when he says that TS/SCI documents being in Donald Trump's basement does not constitute an emergency.

At the same time, the fact that the documents were allowed, for 18 months, to be in the possession of a traitor who also happens to be monumentally stupid, does appear to show that every US security organization is made up of incompetent bumblers.

[Thomas Hurt]

6. Not hard to understand at all. The Pig is a malignant narcissist, those documents were his,

he was entitled to them, simply because he wanted them. He said as much.

[ShazamIam]

7. Kash Patel, who has also threatend to release top secret documents to the public.

From an article in the opinion pages of WaPo.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/19/trump-kash-patel-declassification-mar-a-lago-search/

...Cut to Mar-a-Lago, where Zelig has emerged once more. It turns out that Trump, in a June 19 letter, designated Patel as one of his two representatives to the National Archives for dealing with his records, classified and otherwise. Patel has also emerged as a chief public exponent of Trump’s claim that he could declassify information, including highly sensitive Russia-probe material, at will.

Patel was touting Trump’s declassification powers long before the Aug. 8 search at the Florida estate, back when Trump’s representatives were still negotiating with the FBI over access. Indeed, on May 5 Patel made a startling claim on a right-wing radio show that Trump had unilaterally declassified an extraordinarily broad range of documents — implicitly raising the possibility that these documents might be at Mar-a-Lago.

“On his way out of the White House, he declassified — made available to every American citizen in the world — large volumes of information relating, not just to Russiagate, but to national security matters, to the Ukraine impeachment, to his impeachment one, impeachment two,” Patel told radio hosts Clay Travis and Buck Sexton...

Edit, formating

https://archive.ph/2Pn5A a no paywall copy here