“You took the binder, right?” photo by Alexander Drago, Reuters
From CNN:
A binder containing highly classified information related to Russian election interference went missing at the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, raising alarms among intelligence officials that some of the most closely guarded national security secrets from the US and its allies could be exposed, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
Its disappearance, which has not been previously reported, was so concerning that intelligence officials briefed Senate Intelligence Committee leaders last year about the missing materials and the government’s efforts to retrieve them, the sources said.
In the two-plus years since Trump left office, the missing intelligence does not appear to have been found.
The binder contained raw intelligence the US and its NATO allies collected on Russians and Russian agents, including sources and methods that informed the US government’s assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to help Trump win the 2016 election, sources tell CNN.
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To give you an idea of how much raw information was in the binder, the article says it was 10 inches thick. That’s thousands of pages.
Cassidy Hutchinson testified that she saw Mark Meadows leave the White House with the binder during Trump’s final days. I believe her.
This should be the top story everywhere. It is well past time to lock up Meadows and Trump. They are likely guilty of some of the most serious crimes imaginable.
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Update 1:59pm — Mark Sumner has posted an excellent diary on this story: www.dailykos.com/...
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Update 3:14pm — DeposuitPotentes has posted a diary about Meadows’ lawyer’s non-denial denial regarding the missing binder: www.dailykos.com/...
