#secret documents

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this Op-Ed from the Washington Post:

“If there’s a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information,” said Sen. Lindsey O. Graham on Fox News, there will be “riots in the streets.”

The South Carolina Republican’s quote has been relentlessly skewered as a blatant threat of retaliatory political violence ever since he offered it Sunday night. And it is that: Everyone knows the old mob-speak trick of cloaking threats in the guise of faux-innocent “predictions.”

But there’s a more pernicious danger here that shouldn’t escape notice. Underlying Graham’s threat is another attack on the rule of law, one that more Trump propagandists will resort to when their man’s legal perils deepen. It’s an effort to discredit the idea that the law can be applied to the former president at all.

Trump endorsed Graham’s threat by posting video of it on Truth Social. And Trump himself had already unleashed a volley of deranged hints that the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago compound is the stuff of banana republics and FBI leadership is riddled with corruption.

All this comes after release of the redacted affidavit for the Mar-a-Lago search warrant has deepened our understanding of Trump’s potential crimes and strengthened the case that the search was premised on reasonable law enforcement grounds.

#senator lindsey graham #trump #secret documents

[doncar09]

Get the rope!

#digital art #political satire #fbi most wanted #mar a lago #secret documents #traitor #criminal investigations #prosecute #doncar09

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

A federal judge on Monday dismissed former President Donald Trump's lawsuit challenging the government's access to materials seized from his Mar-a-Lago resort, marking the formal end to Trump's monthslong legal fight following the FBI's raid of his home.

The judge's order came four days after Trump declined to appeal a higher-court ruling that canceled the appointment of a special master to review the thousands of items taken by federal agents during an Aug. 8 raid of Trump's Florida residence.

Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, signed a one-page order dismissing the case for lack of jurisdiction. The order, filed in U.S. District Court in West Palm Beach, also terminated all hearings, deadlines and motions that were still pending in the case. That includes Trump's effort to obtain an unredacted version of the search warrant affidavit that was used to sanction the raid.

A spokeswoman for Trump did not immediately respond to CNBC's request for comment.

Cannon in September had appointed retired Judge Raymond Dearie as special master, while she blocked the Justice Department from reviewing the seized materials as part of a criminal investigation.

The Mar-a-Lago raid turned up more than 100 documents bearing classified markings. A team hired by Trump found more records marked classified outside of the resort, multiple outlets recently reported. Last month, Attorney General Merrick Garland named a special counsel to oversee an ongoing criminal probe into Trump's removal of hundreds of documents from the White House.

A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled Dec. 1 that Cannon should not have appointed the special master, writing that she "improperly exercised" an expansion of her jurisdiction.

"Dismissal of the entire proceeding is required," read the opinion of the panel, which included two judges appointed by Trump.

"The law is clear. We cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant. Nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so," the judges wrote.

The panel gave the former president one week to seek a stay of its ruling by filing an appeal to the full circuit or to the U.S. Supreme Court. Trump's attorneys did not file an appeal.

They had already faced rejection from the Supreme Court as part of the case: The high court in October batted away Trump's request to reverse a prior ruling from the 11th Circuit, which had barred the special master from examining the classified documents.

Last week's ruling from the appeals court could clear a path for federal investigators to more quickly review the thousands of items they had previously been blocked from accessing.

#us politics #news #donald trump #trump administration #cnbc #secret documents #classified documents #trump documents #top secret documents #judge aileen cannon #special master #judge raymond dearie #jack smith #ag merrick garland #biden administration #2022 #fbi raid #mar a largo #11th circuit court of appeals #us supreme court #scotus

[thingstrumperssay]

I thought the FBI planted all 700+ of them?

“Get me the classified documents that the FBI planted and i totally didn’t steal back!”

#the fbi #fbi #donald trump #trump #nuclear secrets #secret documents

[woody-dave]

"Secret document"

Senpai and the Spirit got to the building they needed and they managed to find the necessary documents, and in order not to waste time, they decided to take everything. Senpai noticed some kind of wanted sign.

Dialogue: Spirit: Here we have found it! Now we have the necessary information, but I see that someone was here before us but did not have time to steal the necessary documents.

Senpai: Hey Spirit, don't you think or someone is wanted here, but I don't see who.

Spirit: We don't have time for this, let's get out of here soon, otherwise we may meet trouble here. Get in the car and let's get out of here.

#fnf senpai #fnf spirit #friday night funkin #fnf #in search of woody #adventure #my artwork #my art #myupload #story #secret documents #fan art

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“‘Red Bible’ Is Produced In Court,” St. John Telegraph-Journal. January 9, 1933. Page 9. ---- Chapters Call for World Revolution, Bloodshed and Strikes --- EDMONTON, Jan. 8. - (C.P.) - A ‘Red Bible,’ its chapters calling for world revolution and bloodshed, strikes and armed demonstration by Communists against the ‘state-power of the bourgeois’ was entered as evidence in the preliminary trial of 23 alleged ‘hunger marchers’ here.

The ‘Book of Revolution’ was produced by Constable Albert H. Keeler, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who in 1930 became a member of the Edmonton Communist Party. He obtained possession of the “Red Bible,’ Communistic literature and many secrets of the organization, he said. For months, Keeler gathered literature and many secrets of the organization, attended meetings regularly, and had every opportunity to investigate the campaign plans of the Communist Party, as directed from Moscow.

Marches Planned VICTORIA, Jan. 8. (C.P.) - ‘Hunger marches’ on Ottawa and every provincial capital, backed by ‘demands’ for non-contributory unemployment insurance, are planned by Communist organizations in Canada as part of a nation-wide demonstration timed for Jan. 17, according to advices receive by British Columbia Government authorities here.

Attempts will be made to stage a series of demonstrations from Halifax to Victoria simultaneously, in connection with a ‘hunger march’ on the Dominion Capital.

#edmonton #victoria #red bible #communists #anti-communism #hunger march #hunger marchers #undercover police #secret documents #underground party #section 98 #iron heel #communist party of canada #united front #great depression in canada #fear of a red planet #crime and punishment in canada #history of crime and punishment in canada

[bumblebeeappletree]

Some of the documents recovered from Donald Trump’s FL property were so highly secretive that even some DOJ attorneys & FBI personnel ‘required additional clearances before they were permitted to review [them]’ — here’s the latest

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#trump #fbi #maralago #Politics #News #NowThis

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

#This Modern World #Nuclear Secrets #espionage #secret documents #cartoons

[giannic]

#Legal Breakdown #Court Watch #Glenn Kirchner #Florida courts #Bryan Tyler Cohen #donald trump #secret documents #journal #Youtube

[gwydionmisha]

#Stephanie Grisham #Donald Trump #Secret Documents #News

[calicojack1718]

Did Trump Sell State Secrets? Explaining the Document Scandal

Why did Trump take the documents, work so hard to keep them, and obstruct justice? He's a narcissist, of course. Get the details here!

The Mysterious Case of the Narcissist and the Horde of Secret US Documents Happy arraignment eve, everybody! Once again we are treated to the spectacle of one of the most despised politicians face our justice system. It is an odd mixture of comeuppance, schadenfreude, fear, and loathing. The specter of violence is injected into this toxic brew by Florida’s open carry of unlicensed firearms, the…

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[orwellsunderpants]

Hoo, boy.

#donald trump #trump indictment #secret documents #yikes #us politics

[ncfcatalyst]

Top Secret Documents on the Ukraine war leaked on Discord

Veronica Jolley and Caspian Rizzo The Biden Administration announced on Apr. 6 they were investigating a potential leak of highly classified U.S. Defense Department documents detailing information on the ongoing war in Ukraine on social media channels. The documents include timelines of the war and tell of the casualties suffered on both sides, the military vulnerabilities of each and,…

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#leaked documents #military #military document #military leak #russia #secret documents #ukraine war #war leaks

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Former President Donald J. Trump claimed on Friday that before leaving office, he declassified all the documents the F.B.I. found in this week’s search of his Florida residence that agents described as classified in a list of what they seized — including several caches apparently marked as “top secret.”

“It was all declassified,” Mr. Trump asserted in a statement.

The claim echoed an assertion in May, after it emerged that the National Archives had found documents marked as classified in boxes of documents it removed from Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club and estate, by Kash Patel, a former Trump administration official and a major supporter of Mr. Trump. He asserted that Mr. Trump had deemed those files declassified shortly before leaving office, but the markings had not been removed from them.

Mr. Trump has offered no details, but if he is saying he made a blanket, oral invocation that all the files he took to Mar-a-Lago were unclassified, without making any formal, written record, that would be difficult to definitively prove or disprove. Even if there is no evidence that Mr. Trump followed normal procedures for declassifying certain types of information, his lawyers could argue that he was not constitutionally bound to obey such rules.

But in any case, such a claim would not settle the matter. For one thing, two of the laws that a search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago this week referenced — Sections 1519 and 2071 of Title 18 of the United States Code — make the taking or concealment of government records a crime regardless of whether they had anything to do with national security.

For another, laws against taking or hoarding material with restricted national-security information — which generally carry heavier penalties than theft of ordinary documents — do not always line up with whether the files are technically classified.

That is because some criminal laws enacted by Congress to protect certain national-security information operate separately from the executive branch’s system of classifying documents — created by presidents using executive orders — as “confidential,” “secret,” or “top secret.”

In particular, a third law the warrant references was Section 793, which carries penalties of ten years in prison per offense. Better known as the Espionage Act, it was enacted by Congress during World War I, decades before President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order creating the modern classification system for the executive branch.

As a result, the Espionage Act makes no reference to whether a document has been deemed classified. Instead, it makes it a crime to retain, without authorization, documents related to the national defense that could be used to harm the United States or aid a foreign adversary.

Prosecutors could argue that a document meets that act’s standard regardless of whether Mr. Trump had pronounced it unclassified short before leaving office; by the same token, defense lawyers could argue that it fell short of that standard regardless of how it had been marked.

“Because the Espionage Act speaks in terms of national defense information, it leaves open the possibility that such information could be unclassified as long as an agency is still taking steps to protect it from disclosure,” said Steven Aftergood, who runs the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington.

#us politics #news #donald trump #mar a lago #fbi #fbi raid #2022 #top secret documents #classified documents #secret documents #Espionage Act #trump administration #Section 793 #section 1519 #section 2071 #United States Code #title 18 #national archives and records administration #department of justice

[worldofwardcraft]

Bad things can happen to you when you steal secrets.

September 15, 2022

There are serious penalties for knowingly removing classified government documents and keeping them in an unapproved location (18 USC §1924). And even more severe punishments for taking secret national defense information and disclosing it to someone not authorized to have it (18 USC §793). Doing that could land you in the slammer for up to ten years and cost you up to $250,000. Or worse.

Like what happened to the Rosenbergs. In 1953, amidst the paranoia of the Cold War, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets during World War II. It was later revealed that neither Rosenberg was a member of any atomic bomb spy ring. And that Julius had provided only military-industrial information in order to help the USSR fight the Nazis.

Then there's Reality Leigh Winner, a former US Air Force intelligence specialist. In 2017, while employed by a military contractor, she was arrested on suspicion of leaking a National Security Agency report about Russian interference in the 2016 elections to The Intercept, a news website. Found guilty, she was sentenced to five years and three months in federal prison, the longest sentence ever meted out for unauthorized release of government information to the media.

More recent is the case of Asia Janay Lavarello, a Defense Department employee. While working at the US Embassy in the Philippines, Lavarello took some low-level "Confidential" documents home with her. She wasn't a spy. She wasn't selling any secrets. She merely kept them unsecured. But in February the US District Court for Hawaii sentenced her to three months in prison.

Which brings us to Donald John Trump. Last January, his lawyers turned over 15 boxes of government documents he'd squirreled away at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida country club. These included over 100 documents comprising more than 700 pages of restricted information. Then, last month, the FBI retrieved 184 additional documents — 67 marked confidential, 92 secret and 25 top secret. Also found were 40 empty folders with classified markings, indicating there are other documents still missing.

We don't know whether Trump sold any of the state secrets he stole to some foreign government, like the Saudis or the Russians. Knowing his criminal predilection and insatiable appetite for money, he most likely did. But even if he didn't, former FBI counter- intelligence agent Asha Rangappa observes, "The extent of what has been compromised in our intelligence gathering capabilities is going to be staggering." And should be more than enough to put Trump away for the next several hundred years.

#secret documents #reality winner #espionage #trump the traitor

[woody-dave]

"Secret document"

In a huge laboratory, a secret material was developed that was found underground, these pieces of crystalline substance caused interesting anomalous radiation at first this artifact was dangerous due to the effects of radiation, but then it is found out that this artifact is active if there are objects that emit electricity. It's been a few days since we found out that this artifact has an interesting property of distorting time or moving a person during time, we found out when we conducted an experiment on a phone that was eventually slightly upgraded in future and then it was covered with a strange slime when it was moved to another universe. After we learned its properties, we called it the “Ruby of Time” its color was green and its waves radiated all the technology and it had boundless energy. After that, when we wanted to complete the experiment, our boss said that it remained to check this artifact on a person, we told him that this artifact still had to pass the last check on a living being, but he didn't care about it and he decided to check on our employee named Woody, he was a good person and the best employee, but his condition was already old and he had to retire tomorrow. When Woody was forcibly taken to Rubin, he was told at gunpoint that: He has to touch the artifact and then wait. After Woody touched the artifact, the ruby began to become very active and emit more radiation as a result, Woody was moved somewhere, after which Woody was dead and his body disappeared, what was unknown with him. After that, they decided to take the artifact to the Reborn Island, where the artifact will be sent. And the accident with Woody, all the workers under threat told them to keep quiet about this case.

#story #origin story #secret documents