Thread by @BrynnTannehill

My understanding is that much of the material found there earlier was classified at the highest levels. Special Access Program / Trigraph level stuff that only a few people get read in to. There's a special court system just for this. 1/n

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The fact that MAGA world is freaking out over this is sad and scary at the same time. There was obviously a crime committed here: namely 15 boxes of boxes of deliberately mishandled materials. This goes WAY beyond someone having a private server. 2/n

The sorts of things in SAP programs are the most closely guarded US secrets. For national security types, the thought of these things ending up in the wrong hands fills them with a sense of cold dread. 3/n

Claiming that they had no idea these things were classified is going to be impossible: most of them still had their cover sheets still attached. If you've seen these cover sheets, you'll understand why.

Regardless, this is the worst deliberate mishandling of classified materials I've ever heard of, and that's if there was no malign intent. If this material ended up in the wrong hands, it could potentially be the worst spill (or espionage) in US history.

There's stuff that only the president and a (VERY) few other people get to see. Remember that (then) Vice-President Truman didn't get read into the Manhattan Project until after FDR died.

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I'm having trouble getting pictures to load, but the cover sheets I referenced look a lot like this. They're nearly impossible to miss.

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The best defense Trump has got is that he has no idea who put these things in the boxes, and that he had no idea that they were there. Thing is: not very many people would have been allowed to handle SAP materials, which means you can't blame it on a random WH intern.