Wednesday, August 17, 2022

More Than A Million US Citizens Have A Top Secret Clearance

CNN: The number of people with Top Secret clearance will shock you 

(CNN)The central question surrounding the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago last week is the one that remains most unanswered: What documents did former President Donald Trump have and why is the government so intent on getting them back? 

There are other questions, of course. Did he take the material because he thought they were "cool," like some kind of trophy? Or did he see some advantage in having them, The New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman wondered during an appearance on CNN's "New Day" on Monday. 

Were the documents related to Roger Stone's pardon by Trump somehow key evidence? What is behind the appearance of material on the "President of France" in the receipt for what was taken? 

The imagination runs wild in the absence of facts. 

Trump has now demanded the documents be returned, even though presidential papers, under US law, are not his property. 

The most tantalizing detail is that 11 sets of documents were classified. 

It's shining a light on the system of classification by which the government hides information from its people in the name of everyone's national security.  

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WNU Editor: The focus of this CNN report is not on how many Americans have a top secret security clearance. The focus is on former President Trump's handling of documents that he says he declassified. 

And while this CNN report gives a few examples of high profile people being punished for not properly handling "Top Secret" information. Of course there is no mention on Hillary Clinton facing no consequences on how she handled Top Secret documents and information on her private server, or the destruction of devices and information that contained this information even though she was under subpoenaed to produce.

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