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ColinC

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63. Think he might get the same treatment as Robert Hansen?

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Fri Aug 12, 2022, 12:14 AM

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Regarding tonight's "nuclear" news. I actually feel like a weight is being lifted off... [View all] LuckyCharms Aug 2022 OP

Now they need to lock him up. SheltieLover Aug 2022 #1

They will. LuckyCharms Aug 2022 #2

I hope so. SheltieLover Aug 2022 #4

I hate the fact that he has had this stuff, and no doubt has been hawking it, for a year Scrivener7 Aug 2022 #3

Me too! Why did they wait? SheltieLover Aug 2022 #5

I don't know. Scrivener7 Aug 2022 #9

I've had the occasion to work with highly classified material LuckyCharms Aug 2022 #13

Do you have any insight into why they wouldn't just go get it back from him immediately? Scrivener7 Aug 2022 #16

I don't, and that is what is bothering me. LuckyCharms Aug 2022 #20

This is crazy on so many levels. Scrivener7 Aug 2022 #26

I could see it this way: colorado_ufo Aug 2022 #78

The corruption is deep orthoclad Aug 2022 #37

It's entirely reasonable to assume that the National Archives people were doing accounting of ancianita Aug 2022 #42

Top secret materials. There should never be a need to "track down" top secret materials. Scrivener7 Aug 2022 #46

You're missing the point. It's the National Archives that preserves ALL documents. It took TIME ancianita Aug 2022 #57

Top secret nuclear materials. Eighteen months. One would think it might have been the priority. Scrivener7 Aug 2022 #58

Not when you work for that particular commander-in-chief. ancianita Aug 2022 #60

Eighteen months. Scrivener7 Aug 2022 #61

Okay. 12 months for the National Archives materials to get retrieved, then another 6 months for ancianita Aug 2022 #62

I'm driving at the fact that our top secret nuclear materials were on walkabout for eighteen Scrivener7 Aug 2022 #64

The Division of National Security was looking for what tfg had in his possession while in the WH. ancianita Aug 2022 #86

You're better at processing this than I am. I'm still back at "WTF?" and not yet at "getting Scrivener7 Aug 2022 #87

I hear you. We can't get over it until the DOJ acts. ancianita Aug 2022 #88

Why wouldn't they just get it back from him immediately? LudwigPastorius Aug 2022 #48

Try five years and a half. royable Aug 2022 #44

Remembering Sergey Lavrov's toothy grin in the Oval Office. The Unmitigated Gall Aug 2022 #6

👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻 onecaliberal Aug 2022 #23

The listless stumbling abject servitude at Helsinki made me cry for my country Ponietz Aug 2022 #40

Blackmail is a terrible burden to carry. colorado_ufo Aug 2022 #75

There's been no greater humiliation The Unmitigated Gall Aug 2022 #76

I feel extremely anxious Johnny2X2X Aug 2022 #7

There are more of us cilla4progress Aug 2022 #11

It will be traumatic for Republicans Generic Brad Aug 2022 #17

There will be civil unrest. Johnny2X2X Aug 2022 #21

They did civil unrest when Trump was free Generic Brad Aug 2022 #28

Not like we're about to see Johnny2X2X Aug 2022 #32

20,000,000 US assault rifles orthoclad Aug 2022 #41

Not all of those ... Straw Man Aug 2022 #69

Very true orthoclad Aug 2022 #91

I'm cilla4progress Aug 2022 #8

Me too sister. MontanaMama Aug 2022 #51

A rational response. Nt scipan Aug 2022 #54

Funny I feel the opposite, like a huge anvil is hanging over our heads. Bev54 Aug 2022 #10

Me, too. This is just the beginning of ferreting out which foreign entities got our state secrets ancianita Aug 2022 #47

It'll be interesting to see if tfg still has supporters come tomorrow. ecstatic Aug 2022 #12

Same amount as today durablend Aug 2022 #15

If nuclear info was recovered Johnny2X2X Aug 2022 #19

Not. a. chance. durablend Aug 2022 #24

No. Straw Man Aug 2022 #72

I doubt it, most, if not all, are REALLY fucking dense. Meadowoak Aug 2022 #18

It's not about "dense", I think orthoclad Aug 2022 #50

+1 n/t area51 Aug 2022 #55

I've got a trump "in law" newdayneeded Aug 2022 #89

I have a cousin in FL, has stage 4 cancer, has no health insurance and Meadowoak Aug 2022 #90

Traitor, spy, saboteur. dalton99a Aug 2022 #14

I feel no relief EnergizedLib Aug 2022 #22

I broke up laughing when I heard. It's not funny at all but of course he did. uppityperson Aug 2022 #25

Pretty much the same reaction here, at least from me. "Of course he did." Hekate Aug 2022 #35

I hope if he was somehow given very sensitive info Meowmee Aug 2022 #27

My first thought upon learning about possible nuclear documents? Solly Mack Aug 2022 #29

If this proves out... LuckyCharms Aug 2022 #30

I'm not shocked he would but it's like reading a spy novel with an unbelievable plot. Solly Mack Aug 2022 #33

I think a lot of this was caused by the people he surrounded himself with. LuckyCharms Aug 2022 #34

That certainly helped in his crimes. Solly Mack Aug 2022 #36

First thing I thought. No peepee tapes. Just money. AllyCat Aug 2022 #84

I'm horrified but not really surprised. Ocelot II Aug 2022 #31

I'm gonna need every Republican in Congress... dchill Aug 2022 #38

+1 LuckyCharms Aug 2022 #39

Consider that the CIA stopped giving Trump intelligence after January 6th. LudwigPastorius Aug 2022 #43

I had this thought also oldtime dfl_er Aug 2022 #79

Just as I'm wondering how I'll moonscape Aug 2022 #80

I hope this is what happened. At least at the end. AllyCat Aug 2022 #85

"It's going to blow the roof off of the house." rubbersole Aug 2022 #45

"Russia's a ruse"? Everybody knew that! czarjak Aug 2022 #49

The bombshell went off today. Grammy23 Aug 2022 #52

Greed. Corgigal Aug 2022 #53

FYI Randi Rhodes caled this on Tuesday proud patriot Aug 2022 #56

Love Randi but I have been saying it since before trump was elected SouthernDem4ever Aug 2022 #73

if he opens a hotel in Moscow that would erase all doubt. Hamlette Aug 2022 #59

Think he might get the same treatment as Robert Hansen? ColinC Aug 2022 #63

WELL SAID.............. DENVERPOPS Aug 2022 #65

Can he be executed then? If he sold nuclear secrets, perhaps he can! Lucky Luciano Aug 2022 #66

Don't make him a MAGA martyr. LudwigPastorius Aug 2022 #71

Agreed. He's a spy. TheBeam19 Aug 2022 #67

Nah. I always smelled a rat, colorado_ufo Aug 2022 #83

I'm having such Deja Vu right now... lambchopp59 Aug 2022 #68

He'd do it just to hurt Pres Biden, too tishaLA Aug 2022 #70

We've known for years that the F'n, murdering, orange TRAITOR** has been a niyad Aug 2022 #74

Is it possible... oldtime dfl_er Aug 2022 #77

it's amazing we're still a country after 4 years of Agent Orange 0rganism Aug 2022 #81

I'm sorry but history has shown there is never a satisfying comeuppance. Kablooie Aug 2022 #82

Russia helped to install Trump into the White House Skittles Aug 2022 #92