Somebody is leaking

Let's see...who could it be?

The Washington Post tonight published a bombshell front page story with the astounding news that at least one of the documents recovered by the FBI from an unsecure room in Mar a Lago contained information about “a foreign government’s military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities.”  Some of the documents found by the FBI in Mar a Lago “detail top-secret U.S. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them. Only the president, some members of his Cabinet or a near-Cabinet-level official could authorize other government officials to know details of these special-access programs,” the Post reported.

Some of these special access programs can be accessed by “as few as a couple dozen government personnel authorized to know of an operation’s existence. Records that deal with such programs are kept under lock and key,” the Post continued, before noting that Mar a Lago is not an authorized storage facility for such ultra-secret documents that have been held at that location “with uncertain security” for 18 months.  The kind of classified document the Washington Post learned about today was among those whose security was so important that it would have been kept “in a secure compartmented information facility [SCIF], with a designated control officer to keep careful tabs on their location,” according to the Post.

The document with the nuclear information was among the more than 100 classified documents found by the FBI on August 8 pursuant to a search warrant issued by a federal judge in Florida.  It was not part of the 15 boxes of documents and other material turned over by Trump to the National Archives in January.  Nor was it one of the 38 documents handed over to the Department of Justice in June at the time that one of Trump’s lawyers falsely certified that no other classified documents were held in Mar a Lago.