It's important to realize that DOJ has long known what Trump took.

[skip fox]

Because of logs registering the chain-of-custody of these documents DOJ knew precisely what Trump took as early as late winter 2021.

Which means:

They surely knew which documents had not been returned in June of this year. (That means they didn't need human intelligence to tell them that Trump still retained documents, although they might have benefited by knowing where these documents may be at Mar-a-Largo.)

They know if he still hasn't returned documents and what those documents are.

Since none of these documents are originals, they know what is contain in them and what Trump has "over them" if he was to threaten blackmail.

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There are likely more implications but we should understand DOJ has known what Trump took nearly from the beginning.

Why has this not been broadcast? I'm guessing but think our security forces wouldn't want adversaries to know we've been running damage assessment from the beginning and have already changed what we could.

[malaise]

1. You may be right

Rec

[brush]

2. Your last paragraph is so important. Our intel agencies...

are and have been proactive on the traitor-in-chief's actions.

[skip fox]

4. The only reason I felt I could write that is because after Aug. 8th our enemies know this.

Otherwise I'd be tipping them off.

[Emile]

3. This is what I been saying. They know

which documents are missing.

[yourout]

5. They have to assume they have all been scanned and...

Trump has a deadmans switch on them.

[riversedge]

6. You say none of these documents are the originals. Really? I did not know that.

[skip fox]

7. Think about it.

Would CIA, FBI, or any agency give the original analysis to the president? They don't just make a single copy, after all.

[fightforfreedom]

8. I hope you are right but they might not know everything yet.

Trump took a lot of secret documents.

[ShazamIam]

9. Yes, they knew but think how much fun it is to posit that it is/was someone in his own circle.

[Mr.Bill]

10. And I'm sure they have always had procedures in place to

mitigate the damage if any of the secrets were compromised. There will most likely be some damage done, but I'm sure it can be limited.

[Baitball Blogger]

11. That's good to know.

[MOMFUDSKI]

12. I am just hoping that

the time lag was to let the orange menace have more than enough rope to hang himself.

[Johonny]

13. They may not have known what documents were destroyed

There was the possibility those documents not returned had been destroyed. Trump having been known to loosely handle this material may have not sufficiently recorded its destruction. It was only after being tipped off they hadn't been returned and knew from witnesses they weren't destroyed, but still remained that they moved to retrieve them. Now what happened to the remaining material? That's another mystery. I think there's every reason to believe there are still unaccounted for documents, but their fate may remain a mystery. Did he sell them, loose them, destroy them, his staff was such a clown show towards the end, I doubt anyone knows for sure. Particularly if some were destroyed. These weren't the kind of people that kept good records of what they destroyed.

[skip fox]

15. But they know not only a list of what remains missing

but also the contents of what was missing.

After all there are originals at the separate agencies and then again with the compilers/preparers/analysts.

There are actually many “originals.”

[Brainfodder]

14. As soon as this crap came out that was my first thought, I hope this is being or been changed!

YIKES this is one big super cluster!

He met the line and still yet he crossed.

[Irish_Dem]

16. This is assuming the chain of custody logs weren't tampered with.

[japple]

17. I am wondering who were his accomplices. 45 could not have done this by himself. He

had to have LOTS of help. Who helped, who talked?

[Irish_Dem]

18. Yep, he had to have help. And the logs could have been altered, changed, forged.

Who did this stuff? Yes I wonder if people have talked.