William Lindsey Aug 1, 2023

"[Trump's] attempted destruction of the video recordings was not just a coverup of the underlying crime of having unlawfully retained national defense information. Properly understood, it was also a means to continue that underlying conduct."

~ Tess Bridgeman and Ryan Goodman

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https://www.justsecurity.org/87445/national-security-implications-of-trumps-superseding-indictment-a-damage-assessment-2-0/

National Security Implications of Trump’s Superseding Indictment: A Damage Assessment 2.0 - Just Security

The alleged attempt to delete surveillance camera footage at Mar-a-Lago poses its own significant concerns for U.S. national security.

Just Security - A Forum on Law, Rights, and U.S. National Security
BarryAug 1, 2023
Show threadWilliam Lindsey 

"Put another way, the attempt to delete the footage would not simply have served to hide past wrongdoing. It also could have prevented the FBI and other federal authorities from knowing that Trump continued to hold onto dozens of more highly classified materials – e.g., the boxes of materials that were never returned to the storage room, including the materials recovered during the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022."

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Aug 1, 2023 at 2:47pmWeb
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Aug 1, 2023

"As Bridgeman and Rosen outlined in detail in the prior Just Security article, the continued retention of those highly classified documents in an unsecure environment and without the intelligence community knowing exactly what was missing posed enormous risks to U.S. national security. The effort to destroy the video footage should be understood as facilitating that result."

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