Duty to Warn tweet about the stolen documents. (I think this is probably correct.)
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Aug 31, 2022
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I suspect our intelligence community’s classified “damage assessment” will be akin to an assessment of a nuclear blast site:
He took EVERYTHING.
He gave the enemy EVERYTHING.
There’s NOTHING left.
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These stolen documents represent just the tail end of the career of a Russian asset in the White House.
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That said, a person with no scruples, infinite ego, regard for nobody else, and infinite greed, with access to the highest level secrets (*), expect the worst.
(*) There is a rule called "need to know" and curiosity, greed and revenge are not on the list.
The "harmless" part might have been his deranged obsession with B and H.
Barack and Hillary, and HB signifies you know who.
Why does this remind me of CRM-114, P.O.E.?
This really could be the largest turncoat story ever, perhaps since Judas.
from years of observing him at actual work. Oh, we know he, and America through him, have been taken to the cleaners and stripped a number of time by incredibly smarter men, all right.
But -- he's famously wired to be transactional, typically approaching foreign policy as if he's haggling over prices in a tourist shop. He also famously views these transactions as part of a zero sum game -- in which he always ends up with far more than anyone else. Pure delusion, as we know, and what works to cheat paint store owners isn't going to work quite as well on any of the ruthless heads of state he went up against.
But the picture of him having already given them everything, leaving himself nothing for future masterful deals by the greatest dealmaker of them all, doesn't fit.
Nor does the notion that this factual illiterate could have acquired "everything," which would be way beyond huge information-wise. (Btw, remember that sensitive government documents, as well as everything that arrives at the National Archives, are subject to a formal chain of custody; all those that could have ended up in his office can be identified.)
Imo, it should be enough to fear what he has revealed. It doesn't have to be everything or anything close to be dreadful.
And on this subject, let's take a moment to remember the massive (Russia-facilitated) government document dumps by people some regarded strictly as heroes, refusing concern for resultant damage to our country or tragic consequences for people. Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, etc. If tRump would claim he stole the documents intending to provide transparency into the operations of our government and technology to the whole world, not just one specific enemy, maybe then at least those could stop worrying.
