How Secure Are U.S. Nuclear Weapon Secrets? Former CIA Director Explains - Velshi - MSNBC Prime

[Rhiannon12866]

John Brennan, former C.I.A. director, talks about the extreme level of security that is applied to the United States' nuclear secrets, and stringent limits on access to them. - Aired on 08/11/2022.

[SheltieLover]

1. Kicking for visibility

With any luck, those documents ars fake.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. If they weren't legitimate, the DOJ wouldn't have gone to such lengths to retrieve them

[wnylib]

3. So, since access is so highly restricted,

this indicates that somebody who had access to these files was complicit in letting Trump get them and carry them out. Therefore, any of the few people with access must be suspected of being accomplices. Who aided Trump in getting these documents for him to take to Mar a Lago?

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Excellent point - we can bet that TFG didn't lug all those boxes all by himself

Though it is possible that whoever moved them (moving company?) could have assumed the boxes contained his actual possessions, but I agree that we need to know the answer to who helped him and if they were aware of the contents. It's imperative that we know the details of exactly how he accessed them, what he took, why and who knew...

[wnylib]

5. I was not referring to who helped Trump carry the boxes.

I was referring to who got the documents out of their special containment in the first place in order to put them into boxes. According to the video, only a few people were allowed access to the documents. They had to physically carry them to the president if he asked to see them, remain with the documents, and personally return them when the president was through with them. Somebody did not follow through on this protocol. The only way that Trump could have got them into boxes to be carted away is if one of the very few, select people with access got them for Trump and then left them in Trump's hands instead of returning them to their locked, secret, safe storage. That person, whoever it was, acted as an accomplice by not following extreme top secret protocol.

Maybe Trump threatened that person. Maybe that person was a Trump loyalist all along. Whatever the case, and whoever it was, the list of which select people had access is snalll, so the culprit should be traceable.

[Scrivener7]

6. This. Which begs the question of how this could have happened and continued for so long.

We are missing information. This just doesn't make sense.

[Scrivener7]

7. Great post, Rhiannon. Thank you.

[Rhiannon12866]

8. I've enjoyed having Ali Velshi in this time slot, perceptive analysis and he's had great guests

And I think he deserves an award for that series he did from the Ukraine border.