Guilty verdict will likely not affect plans for intel briefings for Trump [View all]
Source: nbc news
When he becomes the Republican nominee, he will still be briefed, despite his conviction in the hush money case and despite facing a trial on charges of mishandling classified info.
May 31, 2024, 10:00 AM CDT By Dan De Luce
..................The intelligence briefings for presidential nominees are not mandated by law but are a custom dating back to 1952, designed to ensure a smooth transition of power and to prepare a prospective commander in chief for office. The presidential nominees do not require a security clearance to receive the briefings and a felony conviction against a nominee would not prevent the briefings from proceeding.
Larry Pfeiffer, a former chief of staff at the CIA and now the director of the Hayden Center for Intelligence at George Mason University, said the intelligence briefings typically provide information that is not top secret but at a lower level of classification. The briefings “would very likely not include information about sources or methods” behind the intelligence, he said.
“The fact that Trump has now been convicted of fraud sadly provides further evidence that the former president holds the concept of trust in very low regard. Trust is fundamentally what makes our system of protecting secrets work,” Pfeiffer told NBC News..........................................
During his time at the White House, Trump was accused of revealing secret information during a conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and when he tweeted an image of an Iranian satellite launch. After he left office, he was indicted on federal criminal charges of allegedly retaining a trove of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
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