Former President Trump had a shocking number of the government’s most highly sensitive secrets left unguarded at his Mar-a-Lago residence, including documents detailing U.S. nuclear weapons, defense vulnerabilities, and plans for a potential attack on Iran.
A Justice Department indictment unsealed earlier this month said Mr. Trump willfully retained national defense information or NDI. Unlike other government markets such as confidential or top secret, which can be declassified, it is illegal to possess NDI anywhere outside of a secure government facility. That’s because it shows military strengths and weaknesses as well as methods and sources for gathering that information.
• A January 2020 document concerning the military options of a foreign country and its “potential effects on United States interests.” This document is from roughly the same time Iran launched ballistic missiles at an airbase in western Iraq, though it is unknown what the document detailed. “The fact that you have these documents in fairly open facilities where we know both American and foreign officials were traipsing around the property is extremely problematic,” said Mr. Jaffer.
“He said that I wanted to attack Iran, Isn’t it amazing?” Mr. Trump says of Mr. MIlley. “I have a big pile of papers, this thing just came up. Look. This was him. They presented me this — this is off the record but — they presented me this. This was him. This was the Defense Department and him.” Some of the markings on the documents indicate that they could only be shared with the so-called Five Eyes intelligence community, which includes the U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the U.K. That suggests that the information detailed in those materials didn’t originally come from U.S. intelligence sources.
Mr. Smith wrote that the number of people who had knowledge of these documents would be “reasonably small and commensurate with the objective of providing enhanced protection for the information involved.” It’s possible that the Justice Department didn’t disclose all of the materials seized at Mar-a-Lago, because some of it was too sensitive to list in a court document.
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