The nature of the documents cited in the Trump indictment is an unavoidable consideration. These docs included nuclear weapons information, defense vulnerabilities, and more.
The level of basic document management needs questioning, too. Some of the documents, according to The New York Times, were stacked in showers, a bedroom and a ballroom.
Not exactly the best practice in records management. Nobody archives documents in a shower. These documents could not possibly be considered “secure” in any known sense of the word. Declassified or not; who keeps any type of documents that way?
Let’s get back to who needs these documents. America already has the information, or supposedly it did. …So who does?
Any kind of information, if current, is valuable to someone. Military information is particularly valuable. Why is all this “hard currency” just lying around Mar-A-Lago? They could at least have set up a souvenir stall or something.
Even my somewhat overachieving scatology, in seven languages, doesn’t quite do justice to this unholy mess.
Was Trump somehow blissfully unaware of their value and importance? Was there going to be a wedding and more confetti was required? Did they have a really fussy birdcage they need to line? Maybe it was for a new business venture, Trump Wallpaper?
The intelligence community will be aware that some real-life situations involve staggering examples of mediocrity. Drama queens seem particularly interested in dabbling in this field. Typically, they’re drawn to intelligence because it boosts their self-importance.
Obviously, that can’t be the case.
…Which drags us screaming in protest back to the issue of who needs these documents.
There are very limited options:
- Collectors
- Molds and other political hangers-on of various kinds
- Companies specializing in fire insurance
- Trump ghostwriters desperate for a subject
- Secretive Washington lobbyists on holiday from destroying the country and stimulating their negative IQs with some reading matter
- Anyone in the US with a phone and a bank account
- America’s enemies
This select group of cretins may or may not be a national security risk. They could, however, theoretically find a market for this information.
Given the high levels of literacy and efficiency in the Trump administration, the same levels of due diligence were likely applied to these documents.
There was never any security risk. The documents don’t exist. The Tooth Fairy needed them for some reason. This is the level of sophisticated legal argument we can expect.
It’s the only question worth asking; who needs these documents?
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