We can't see it, the secret document investigation must be massive and intense.

[fightforfreedom]

The DOJ, FBI, CIA, NSI, DHS, Military CID, all intelligence agencies must be involved. Everyone involved with stealing, removing, concealing, lying about the secret documents are not going to walk away free from this investigation. No way in hell.

At this time, they are probably trying to trace all the documents. Trying to figure out what the damage is. That must be a large undertaking. Once that is done, the people involved in this massive security breach better look out, better lawyer up because they are in deep shit.

[FakeNoose]

1. Some of our "secrets" incorporated information supplied by our Allies

I'm guessing there will be a major shift as our Allies (especially NATO) stop sharing their info with us.
Their trust in us was ruined by Chump.

[SeattleVet]

2. Full recovery from this is going to take years and billions of (black budget) dollars.

The IC has to consider all of the materials that The Manchurian Cantaloupe stole to have been compromised in some fashion. They are probably scrambling right now trying to protect some of the Human Resources that may have been revealed. (And how many of those have already found their way out of an upper-floor window, with some assistance from his good old buddy Vlad?) What technological methods and sources have been compromised? Some of those may have already become relatively useless, giving us some rather large blind spots in intelligence collection. Mere knowledge of the existence of some of the information can have devastating effects on our ability to continue collecting that info.

We'll also have to deal with our allies as well, and I'm sure that none of them are at all happy with the situation, and we may have just lost a lot of longstanding channels that we have relied on for years.

Not knowing what has been compromised, or who has had access to any of it has already created massive intelligence problems, and I'd hate to be one of the people that has to work to mitigate this disaster.

Stand by - I really think that this is going to turn out to be WAY more serious than most people think it is.

[crickets]

6. +1000000

...with an A+ for "Manchurian Cantaloupe."

[CharleyDog]

3. Or: they've known all along and have been cleaning up after him like those repeated ketchup

stains on the walls of the White House. Tantrums, lies, stealing, nothing new. They surely must have known their top secret documents were being hoarded and compromised by the Dotard. Every department in our government was high-jacked like a lethal virus by the sociopath sore loser including defense, security, intelligence and justice. They've known all along, only now the dotard publicly spilled the beans and here we are.

[fightforfreedom]

4. They may have known their were secret documents.

But I don't think they knew how many. Those secret document were taken long ago. Nobody seemed to notice until the Archives got involved.

[gab13by13]

5. Looking for the damage will never be done.

It must be ongoing from Trump forward.