Few people can relate to having their home ransacked by the FBI in search of classified documents thought to be held in violation of the Espionage Act. One of those people is a former senior NSA official named Thomas Drake. He spoke with KerryHowley
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images There are a very few people on this earth who can relate to having their home ransacked by the FBI in search of classified documents thought to be held in violation of the Espionage Act. One of those people is a former senior NSA official named Thomas Drake.
They ended up in my house for about the same time they were in Mar-a-Lago, nine hours, agents everywhere. They had these special rods, to see in case I had any hidden containers. I had a mouse problem when I first moved, I had mouse traps, but some of them obviously weren’t sprung; they were springing mouse traps in my basement office. I just found it funny. They were popping the tile for the false ceiling, and as they were popping those tiles there were mouse traps snapping off.
Actual national-security threat. Think of Trump and how he operates, this massive man child. I’m president. When he would be be given the PDB [President’s Daily Brief] — I used to support that when I was at the NIMJC [National Military Joint Intelligence Center] — there’s all this “most relevant for president only,” for him to have an understanding of what’s going on and updates and all of that. I can imagine him: I want a copy of that.
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