who has heard of The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency?

[RussBLib]

on page 8 of the 49-page Indictment....never heard of this agency. We have so many intelligence agencies these days, I wonder what others I've never heard of?

The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency was a combat support agency within DoD responsible for the exploitation and analysis of imagery, imagery intelligence, and geospatial information in support of the national security objectives of the United States and the geospatial intelligence requirements of DoD, the Department of State, and other federal agencies.

The Indictment basically makes one point: Trump and Nauta (and others?) deliberately hid boxes of docs before "Trump Atty 1" came to Mar-a-Largo to look for any more classified docs in the "Trump boxes." That's simple Obstruction of Justice. Plenty of evidence of this. And that's the crux of the whole Indictment.

I totaled up all the potential jail time = 400 years for Trump; 90 for Nauta. (I am estimating 10 years X 31 charges)

Now the Jan 6 Indictment is going to be quite a bit more complicated.

[bottomofthehill]

1. A couple who live in my neighborhood work there

They met there, dated and got married. Still working there. I think it is HQ is in Alexandria VA on the Ft Belvoir base.

[CrispyQ]

2. IMO, a lot of this is just a way for the wealthy to siphon more of our tax dollars into their coffer

s. The rich don't want an economy for all, even though they still get plenty rich that way, too. The rich want it all. It's sickness. Back when Bush was prez, I remember reading that Cheney would save $45K in taxes with the tax cuts they were pushing for. In the next paragraph it said he was worth $53 million. I just googled him & he's now worth $150 million. How nice for him. Fucker.

[Celerity]

3. James Clapper was Director of NGA under Bush. Later he was Obama's Director of National Intelligence

and before both of those he was older POTUS Bush's (briefly) and then Bill Clinton's Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clapper

James Robert Clapper Jr. (born March 14, 1941) is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Air Force and former Director of National Intelligence. Clapper has held several key positions within the United States Intelligence Community. He served as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) from 1992 until 1995. He was the first director of defense intelligence within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and simultaneously the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. He served as the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) from September 2001 until June 2006.

On June 5, 2010, President Barack Obama nominated Clapper to replace Dennis C. Blair as United States Director of National Intelligence. Clapper was unanimously confirmed by the Senate for the position on August 5, 2010.

Following the June 2013 leak of documents detailing the NSA practice of collecting telephone metadata on millions of Americans' telephone calls, Clapper was accused of perjury for telling a congressional committee hearing that the NSA does not collect any type of data on millions of Americans earlier that year. One senator asked for his resignation, and a group of 26 senators complained about Clapper's responses under questioning. In November 2016, Clapper resigned as director of national intelligence, effective at the end of President Obama's term. In May 2017, he joined the Washington, D.C.–based think tank the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) as a Distinguished Senior Fellow for Intelligence and National Security. In August 2017, CNN hired Clapper as a national security analyst.

[RockRaven]

4. Heard of it before? Yes. Could I tell you anything about it off the top of my head? No.

And as for predicting a sentence, adding up the statutory maximums -- which is what a lot of reporters do -- is a waste of time and misleading. If everything is done by the book, the sentence would be determined by the federal sentencing guidelines.

[LearnedHand]

5. Isn't this the organization

That analyzes satellite data for intelligence purposes?

[RussBLib]

7. looks like it

responsible for the exploitation and analysis of imagery, imagery intelligence, and geospatial information in support of the national security objectives of the United States

Looks like Trump was aware of it, at least tangentially. Could be some valuable stuff in there.

And then, I keep hearing that TFG is the dumbest criminal/president ever, and I have to wonder how much do we still not know about this thug? And will it be stupid?

[Sneederbunk]

6. How did TFG know which docs to keep?

He had a lot of help (foreign help).

[Stinky The Clown]

8. I had a bit to do with them during design and construction of their HQ.

They are a mashup of a number of Four Letter and lesser agencies, to move up to Three Letter status. Their actual name is hyphenated to achieve Three Letter status.

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency - NGA, NOT NGIA.

They fall under DoD.

Overly simplified, they are concerned with mapping based on data, such as (made up example) all airports in the world with 5,000 to 7,500 foot runways.