Home Artists Posts Import Register

Downloads

Content

The more we learn, the worse it gets for Trump. It's almost like he's a pathological narcissist without any regard for laws. Today Andrew breaks down two ways to convict Trump, using two different provisions of the law.


Links: motion opposing special master, DOJ exhibits, United States v. Gonzalez, 18 U.S. Code § 793 - Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information, Proving Intent at Mar-a-Lago, The Trump Warrant Had No Legal Basis - WSJ, 44 U.S. Code § 2201, 44 U.S. Code § 2202 - Ownership of Presidential records, 44 U.S. Code § 2203 - Management and custody of Presidential records, 44 U.S. Code § 2205 - Exceptions to restricted access, 44 U.S. Code § 2204 - Restrictions on access to Presidential records

Files

Comments

David in Brooklyn

No, this is entirely new information for me, and I'd like to hear an explanation for it.

Anonymous

Assuming @David in Brooklyn was responding to me - a quick explanation. It is kind of like what companies do with metadata; the more information you have on someone or something, even if it's peripheral, the more you can combine that information and get more understanding from it that you wouldn't have otherwise, and then use it for whatever purpose you choose. For a breakdown example: you may have multiple separate documents that have been marked as unclassified, but each classification is assigned to each piece of media on its own. Coming up with a really nondescript example, let's say there is a top secret program with a code name of Rubber Ducky. You might have Rubbery Ducky secret research and then you have separate unclassified media on Rubbery Ducky completely related to supporting its personnel (example - a local article on Rubber Ducky team winning Rubber Industries award) and Rubber Ducky generic fund charges (Rubber Ducky personnel charge their time and expenses to these accounts). Separately, Rubber Ducky funding and Rubber Ducky personnel lists can't tell you much. That's why they're unclassified. But if you combine the Rubber Ducky personnel list with the funding charges - and you can identify that the lead on the Rubber Ducky program has a career specialty and multiple papers published on Nuclear Intelligence Enhancement, and you then look at the funding charges and notice that the Rubber Ducky lead has been traveling regularly every few months between two specific locations, and then you happen to look up those locations and you discover that there are secret research facilities devoted to nuclear development...you can see where you can go from there. Despite Rubber Ducky being a top secret program in an undisclosed location that you can't even discuss what it is outside of a SCIF, just combining the funding information with a personnel list has given you enough information to know with high certainty what the Rubber Ducky program is, where it's located, when they're holding testing and events, and possibly set up an intercept or a plant, etc. Just those two pieces of unclassified information have now combined to provide classified information and become a leak. That is why we are taught over and over that aggregated unclassified data becomes classified. No matter whether they're declassified or not. Source: at one point in my career I was a federal librarian with TS/NOFORN/NATO clearance. (Edited because I hit enter and it posted before I finished explaining.)

David in Brooklyn

Thank you and yes, I was asking exactly that question. Yes, by fitting puzzle pieces together and using your brain, you can often get more than the sum of the parts that you started with. That's always my hope when doing any research. Do you know whether the laws and regulations for handling classified information recognize this effect specifically? Like, is any crime defined in terms of combining de- or unclassified information in this way?

Anonymous

As far as I recall, this effect applies directly to laws related to mishandling of classified information. It was handled as a security violation accompanied by official investigation with possible jail time at my former organization.