Below is an excellent article as usual by Heather Digby
Parton – FYI: Digby is her usual pen name seen here as well.
Her latest piece is posted in SALON.com
below with a very logical and rational headline (key parts follow below)
vis-à-vis the now-missing classified files that Trump once held at Mar-a-Lago:
“Why did
he steal the documents? Maggie Haberman's book may hold the answer”
Parton lays out three
possibilities – I chose this one as the most-likely as she also does: Trump
knows the value of hoarding sensitive, secret, or information that is personal
and then wielding it timely for his own personal benefit or financial gain.
If someone’s gambling, sexual, or drinking habits are valuable,
then imagine how valuable TS/SCI information is. It's very likely that Trump
took classified documents he thought would be valuable as leverage against
specific individuals in the future.
Some documents regarding French president Macron seem to fall
into that category.
Also, Trump’s claims that Mark Meadows had custody of the Peter
Strzok-Lisa Page folder of personal texts, or Kash Patel's bragging wild talk about
Trump declassifying a huge pile of documents and releasing them as a form of
blackmail against the our government.
Until recently the FBI and other executive agencies had no
idea what documents Trump might have and obviously couldn't be sure that he
hadn't already given them to someone else.
As president, he had access to everything and
he clearly also is well-known for having no sense of responsibility about national
security.
Trump's weird message to AG Merrick Garland
in the days after the Mar-a-Lago raid sounds even more sinister when seen in the
way it reads and was certainly drafted by someone other than Trump:
“President Trump wants
the Attorney General to know
that he has been hearing from people all over the country about the raid. If
there was one word to describe their mood, it is “angry.” The heat is building
up. The pressure is building up. Whatever I can do to take the heat down, to
bring the pressure down, just let us know.”
We assumed he was talking about his rabid following getting
violent, which certainly seemed like a possibility. But could his former and
close long-time lawyer, Michael Cohen, be right in his assessment about how
nefarious Trump can be?
He said that message to AG Garland sounded like a threat that he would release
national security secrets if the AG and the FBI didn't back off from indicting
him?
My 2 Cents: The full SALON article is worth reading and as I said
in the usual straight forward excellent style of Digby.
In my professional and past Marine Corps training and experience in handling classified documents when in fact I did read and handle a lot of TS/SCI materials (and always in a very secure SCIF (“Skiff” and never outside), I cannot not image a former president being so lax and lazy and flat out careless with such sensitive government secrets.
It is truly mind boggling and the DOJ must
hold Trump accountable to the fullest extent of the law as possible for “no one
is above the law” period full stop foundation of our entire judicial system –
no exceptions – none whatsoever. The worse part is that the damage may already have been inflicted from the documents - and we may never know until it's too late to act or counter any damage.
Enjoy the full story at the link here and above.
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