The documents at Mar-a-Lago were among the country's most closely held secrets, dealing with human sources of intelligence and information that was supposed to be returned to agencies that provided it.
While it is crucial that any damage assessment be conducted swiftly, Carl Ghattas, a former executive assistant director of the FBI’s National Security Branch, said the potential compromise of human sources would add new “urgency” to the effort.
This image contained in a court filing by the Department of Justice on Aug. 30, 2022, and redacted by in part by the FBI, shows a photo of documents seized during the Aug. 8 search by the FBI of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. The Justice Department says it has uncovered efforts to obstruct its investigation into the discovery of classified records at former President Donald Trump's Florida estate.
Human sources of intelligence need to be protected because they are typically foreigners risking their own lives spying on their own government, Pfeiffer said. “They don’t just print stuff and give it out and don’t know where it is,” Mulroy said. “Depending on what was recovered and what was not recovered – empty folders, for example – there would be a considerable counterintelligence effort to determine why this information was allegedly stored outside of a SCIF.”
Zhang “lied to practically everyone she encountered in the United States” and was found with numerous electronics in her purse, including a cellphone in a Faraday bag that blocks signals such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, according to prosecutors. The Justice Department hasn’t revealed what the classified documents contained. But presidents tend to get the highest level information.
“You want to move very, very quickly,” Watson said, referring to the elevated stakes when human sources are put at possible risk.
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