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In reply to the discussion: Trump Team Wants More Raw Intel, Less Analysis from Spy Agencies: Report [View all]jmowreader
(53,331 posts)Raw information also contains primary source designators, which tell you who picked the stuff up in the first place.
Trump could also endanger the people we're targeting. All totalitarian states have extremely strong secrecy laws - fifteen years in a penal colony of special regime for not putting the cover back on your radar antenna. It is not hard to imagine their counterintelligence people going over all the raw data Trump sends them looking for excuses to put people in prison.
I am not comfortable with giving Trump anything more sensitive than reports written by watching the news. But I'm sick to my stomach at the thought of someone so thoroughly compromised as Donald Trump having raw classified traffic he can provide to his agent handler in the Kremlin.