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In reply to the discussion: A disturbing new detail about the photo of the classified documents found in Trump's possession... [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)81. NYT Oct 2021: "Captured, Killed or Compromised: C.I.A. Admits to Losing Dozens of Informants"
Counterintelligence officials said in a top secret cable to all stations and bases around the world that too many of the people it recruits from other countries to spy for the U.S. are being lost.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/us/politics/cia-informants-killed-captured.html
This OP of course reminds me of the bigger issue, the security leaks. The personal tragedies ofthe intelligence gatherers who've been tortured and died or disappeared into prisons aren't themselves the important part of that, of course, or the years of lost intelligence losing them means, but they are reminders of what's at stake for many of the other 8 billion people on the planet.
Regarding the white borders on the documents: They're very regular. I don't doubt for a split second that information from some of these documents became available to foreign powers, through active sharing and/or their espionage, and also that some would have been copied. But, could standard FBI practice place documents on larger sheets of paper whose edges can be handled?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/us/politics/cia-informants-killed-captured.html
This OP of course reminds me of the bigger issue, the security leaks. The personal tragedies ofthe intelligence gatherers who've been tortured and died or disappeared into prisons aren't themselves the important part of that, of course, or the years of lost intelligence losing them means, but they are reminders of what's at stake for many of the other 8 billion people on the planet.
Regarding the white borders on the documents: They're very regular. I don't doubt for a split second that information from some of these documents became available to foreign powers, through active sharing and/or their espionage, and also that some would have been copied. But, could standard FBI practice place documents on larger sheets of paper whose edges can be handled?
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A disturbing new detail about the photo of the classified documents found in Trump's possession... [View all]
Shipwack
May 2023
OP
simply put, the picture that was taken of the secret document cover sheets at Mar A Lago
drray23
May 2023
#4
That or traded for current and or future favors such as a safe harbour to do a Snowden.
cstanleytech
May 2023
#67
pics (some of the Trump docs' cover sheets do not bleed to the edge, so they are perhaps copies)
Celerity
May 2023
#24
I think? If you were just making a copy for content, you wouldn't waste color ink.
forgotmylogin
May 2023
#38
This country has been through worse events than Trump. 1. CIVIL WAR 2. WORLD WAR 1 . WORLD WAR 2,
Stuart G
May 2023
#33
Unfortunately I think even when he's dead we'll still be learning of the scope of his crimes.
Axelrods_Typewriter
May 2023
#68
Yup - I remember the smell of the mimeograph solution and the smear of the carbon copies.
erronis
May 2023
#44
It's possible that he made copies of docs before turning over original docs to FBI in June
wishstar
May 2023
#43
If it was truly OK for Trump to have classified docs, there would be no need for him to lie about it
keithbvadu2
May 2023
#60
The article said that there are indications that the copies were made outside the White House.
yardwork
May 2023
#72
And we must wonder why he was/is so insistent on saying he "de-classified" them??
kentuck
May 2023
#74