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Beau says:
House and Judiciary Committees seek assessment on Trump's clubhouse documents, with limited public insight expected; speculation surrounds prior knowledge and potential risks.
Policy Analysts
Insights on potential implications and consequences of the classified documents found at Trump's clubhouse.
#IntelligenceCommunity #DamageAssessment #HouseCommittees #DOJ #Counterintelligence
Well, howdy there, internet people.
It's Beau again.
So today, we're going to talk about the damage report.
The chairs of the House Intelligence and Oversight
Committees have asked the intelligence community,
specifically the counterintelligence executive,
to provide a damage assessment, basically
trying to figure out how much the documents found
at Trump's clubhouse, how much it damaged national security
if it did.
The Judiciary Committee has also been
asked if they're going to do a hearing
or try to get a briefing or anything like that from the FBI.
And their response appears to be, yeah,
it's a normal search warrant.
And they don't care.
Now, this briefing will assuredly
be conducted behind closed doors.
And while there are people that are hopeful
it will shed some light on how bad this is to the public,
it probably won't.
There are TSSCI documents.
Odds are they're not going to be able to say anything
after the briefing.
So us, normal folk, we aren't going to really get
any information out of this.
You may be able to gauge it based
on the public statements of those who
attended the briefing afterward.
But as far as any specifics, probably not going
to come from this method.
There's also the idea that there will
be a briefing for the Gang of Eight, which is the leadership.
We'll have to see.
We will have to see how this plays out.
I don't foresee a whole lot of new information coming
into the public's view from this.
Anything that comes out of it is going to have to be guesswork
based on the reactions of those people involved.
Now, as far as the intelligence community,
they would do this anyway, this kind of assessment.
In fact, it was probably already done.
It might have been done before the search was executed,
assuming they knew what was there.
And that seems to be what people are operating under,
is the idea that DOJ was aware of what the documents were.
Keep in mind, we don't actually know that.
For all we know, they were just informed that there
were classified documents there.
There were documents with classification markings there,
and they wanted to retrieve them.
They may not have known exactly what the documents were.
If they did, rest assured the counterintelligence people,
they conducted that assessment as soon
as they knew those documents were out
of where they were supposed to be.
But again, it's being assumed right now
that DOJ knew exactly what they were going to find when we
really haven't seen that yet.
We just know that they were looking
for this type of document, not any in particular.
So the damage report that's going
to come out, the assessment, the briefing,
if you want to try to gauge it, look
at the people who attended and see
if their public statements start to change,
if their rhetoric becomes a little bit more relaxed,
maybe it wasn't that damaging.
If they become even more fired up,
that's probably a pretty good sign
that people were put at risk.
But it is going to be a guessing game when it comes to that.
It's a world of secrets, so we're not going to find
anything out for a while.
Anyway, it's just a thought.
Y'all have a good day.
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