Until the facts are gathered and presented, we won't know if this was a historically mismanaged departure from the White House, with serious obstruction attached, or something far more nefarious, writes Mpolymer.
The National Archives and Records Administration has been caught up in a criminal investigation into the former president after sending a referral to the FBI stating that 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate in January contained dozens of documents with classified markings.bandoning the"back the blue" pro-police movement, former President Donald Trump claimed on Saturday that the FBI and Justice Department have become"vicious monsters.
Trump’s charge is a repugnant one for any politician to make, let alone a former president. The fact is, the FBI is federal law enforcement. We need FBI agents and other members of the FBI's professional staff to be on their game, not watching their six worried that charged-up Trump supporters may commit violence against them.
Take the intelligence document related to French President Emmanuel Macron that was discovered at Mar-a-Lago. I don’t envy the U.S. Embassy in Paris's predicament. While the French people don’t really care about their leaders' extramarital affairs or sexual preferences, they may care very much about how
this information may have been collected. If it was based on U.S. intelligence agents inside the French government or communications intercepts of French government officials, we could have a major scandal on our hands.Well, back to my original point: We should back the blue. The FBI needs the space to do its jobs. The GOP attack dogs need to stand down. But we shouldn't obsess over details as yet unclear. Take the intelligence cover sheets found at Mar-a-Lago, for example.
Marc Polymeropoulos is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. A former CIA senior operations officer, he retired in 2019 after a 26-year career serving in the Near East and South Asia. His book More from Examiner
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