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Will Allen Jun 13, 2023

I don't see nearly enough people talking about the staggering cost to the US and allies as a result of The Former Guy's theft.

Politics is one thing, but in the Intelligence and Counterintelligence communities, there are protocols. And one protocol you can take to the bank: When a man who is known to have back channel connections to literally every one of our enemies steals a trove of classified documents, you treat every single one of them as if they are now owned by our enemies.

Let the gravity of that sink in. Every single agent mentioned is now compromised. Every agent alluded to is compromised. Every combat plan is now available for all our enemies to develop countermeasures for. Every secret plan to develop intelligence on our enemies is now a dead end.

There were nuclear secrets in there.

How do you begin to calculate the impact and cost of the enemy knowing our nuclear secrets, including potentially our plans if Putin were to launch a limited nuclear strike?

We will never know the cost of it, because it's all SUPPOSED TO BE SECRET TO PROTECT US FROM OUR ENEMIES. But however much you think it cost, it was probably more.

The Defense Department and Intelligence Community don't have the luxury of hoping he didn't make the sales we all know he made.

They have to assume he sold all of it. Whether it's ever proven or not.

This is one of the worst crimes ever committed by a US citizen against the US.

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Francisca Sinn Jun 13, 2023

@willallen “They have to assume he sold all of it. Whether it's ever proven or not.”

This exactly. I don’t understand how so many people appear to be missing this point. No one who says “he didn’t sell national security and *Five Eyes* intelligence” knows that as fact, and the more that politicians and pundits lean into the story that it was all to play hot-shot at his club, the more it appears they know that he did in fact sell secrets. The DOJ can’t even admit it if they do know that he did.

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Will Allen

@fsinn exactly so. Anybody who even gives a cursory glance at TFG's career will see he has never passed up an opportunity to make dirty money. It would defy all credulity to suggest that he stole all of this to sit on it.

The DOJ, DOD, and other US Agencies are hamstrung, of course. They can't just come out and say any of it, because that statement would potentially be useful to our enemies.

But this story needs to be told.

Shame heaping upon shame for what's left of American Journalism for not providing the most basic historical context for what is happening.